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Kawasaki Drifter

Every Kawasaki Drifter model year on file, 1999 to 2000. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years50 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years21999 to 2000
Recall campaigns1Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins0Summed across model years
By model year

The 1999 model year drew the most complaints, 4, 80% of the model's total

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

01234199942000
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Structure leads the Kawasaki Drifter complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Structure
1
Lighting
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Kawasaki Drifter 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.

Kawasaki Drifter by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2000Motorcycle10.040000
1999Motorcycle40.0200100
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Kawasaki Drifter

  • 99V-067 Apr 6, 1999
    Vehicle description: motorcycles (vn1500-j1/l) equipped with a digital fuel injection system and a vehicle-down sensor
    Fuel system ยท 2,779 vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.