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Yamaha YZFR1

Every Yamaha YZFR1 model year on file, 2015 to 2021. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years40 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years22015 to 2021

Recall campaigns1Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins2Summed across model years

By model year

The 2015 model year drew the most complaints, 4, 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

Powertrain leads the Yamaha YZFR1 complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Powertrain

Engine and cooling

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Yamaha YZFR1 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.

Yamaha YZFR1 by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2021	Not decoded	0	None	None	0	0	1
2015	Motorcycle	4	0.0	200	1	0	1

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

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Yamaha YZFR1

15V-802 Nov 30, 2015
Affected motorcycles have transmission gears that may fail
Powertrain · 2,921 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.