Buell S1 Lightning: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Buell S1 Lightning, model years 1996 to 1998. NHTSA has 13 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 3 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 Buell S1 Lightning | 8 | 3 | 69% | 62,938 |
| 1997 Buell S1 Lightning | 8 | 7 | 162% | 62,938 |
| 1996 Buell S1 Lightning | 6 | 3 | 69% | 54,910 |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
25 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 360 | 9 |
| Electrical System | 240 | 6 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 160 | 4 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 120 | 3 |
| Unknown or Other | 80 | 2 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 40 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- S3 Thunderbolt11 campaigns
- M2 Cyclone10 campaigns
- XB12X3 campaigns
- X1 Lightning8 campaigns
- S2 Thunderbolt8 campaigns
- S1 White Lightning6 campaigns
- 1125R2 campaigns
- S2T5 campaigns
- S3T Thunderbolt9 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Buell S1 Lightning: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buell/s1-lightning/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 29 Mar 2018
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- BUELL MOTORCYCLE CO.
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Buell S1 Lightning model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1998 with 8, 1997 with 8, 1996 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Buell S1 Lightning model year has the most complaints?
- The 1997 model year, with 7 of the 13 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Buell S1 Lightning name?
- Suspension: 9 component mentions. Electrical System: 6 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 4 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Buell S1 Lightning?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.