Recall Register

Harley-Davidson FL Series: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Harley-Davidson FL Series, model years 1982 to 1999. NHTSA has 12 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 7 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.

  1. 19822
  2. 19900
  3. 19950
  4. 19960
  5. 19970
  6. 19980
  7. 19990
Harley-Davidson FL Series: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page0158%
1998 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page06350%
1997 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page0158%
1996 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page0158%
1995 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page02117%
1990 Harley-Davidson FL Series NHTSA page0158%
1982 Harley-Davidson FL Series200%9,899

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

13 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.

Harley-Davidson FL Series: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train230.83
Electrical System230.83
Service Brakes, Hydraulic153.82
Fuel System, Gasoline76.91
Visibility76.91
Tires76.91
Suspension76.91
Exterior Lighting76.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Harley-Davidson FL Series, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Harley-Davidson FL Series, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Harley-Davidson: all 105 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Harley-Davidson FL Series: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/harley-davidson/fl-series/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR 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 Harley-Davidson FL Series model years have the most recall campaigns?
1982 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Harley-Davidson FL Series model year has the most complaints?
The 1998 model year, with 6 of the 12 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Harley-Davidson FL Series name?
Power Train: 3 component mentions. Electrical System: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions.