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Indian Chief Standard

Every Indian Chief Standard model year on file, 2009 to 2009. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years10 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years12009 to 2009

Recall campaigns3Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins7Summed across model years

By model year

The 2009 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 100% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Lighting leads the Indian Chief Standard complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Lighting

Structure

Engine and cooling

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Indian Chief Standard model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Indian Chief Standard by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2009	Motorcycle	1	0.0	50	3	0	7

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Indian Chief Standard

13V-391 Aug 30, 2013
Rear rim may crack and cause a loss of air pressure
Wheels · 861 vehicles
11V-344 Jun 27, 2011
Polaris is recalling certain model year 2009-2011 indian motorcycles for failing to conform to the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety…
Structure · 699 vehicles
11V-343 Jun 27, 2011
If the headlight switch is slowly moved from one position to another (high beam to low beam or low beam to high beam), both beams may be on…
Lighting · 699 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.