Recall Register

Harley-Davidson FLHTC: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Harley-Davidson FLHTC, model years 1983 to 2012. NHTSA has 62 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 23 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. 19831
  2. 19841
  3. 19891
  4. 19900
  5. 19920
  6. 19931
  7. 19942
  8. 19951
  9. 19961
  10. 19971
  11. 19981
  12. 19991
  13. 20000
  14. 20011
  15. 20021
  16. 20031
  17. 20050
  18. 20070
  19. 20082
  20. 20093
  21. 20103
  22. 20112
  23. 20121
Harley-Davidson FLHTC: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page100%250,757
2011 Harley-Davidson FLHTC200%425,393
2010 Harley-Davidson FLHTC3274%536,962
2009 Harley-Davidson FLHTC300%536,962
2008 Harley-Davidson FLHTC2274%222,215
2007 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page09334%
2005 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page03111%
2003 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1137%31,070
2002 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1274%28,949
2001 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page17260%28,949
2000 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page0137%
1999 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page16223%14,211
1998 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1274%55,013
1997 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1137%55,013
1996 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1274%55,013
1995 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page16223%55,013
1994 Harley-Davidson FLHTC28297%59,051
1993 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page1274%4,038
1992 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page03111%
1990 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page0274%
1989 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page13111%2,509
1984 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page100%114
1983 Harley-Davidson FLHTC NHTSA page100%114

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

69 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 FLHTC: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System289.920
Engine and Engine Cooling246.417
Suspension876
Power Train72.55
Vehicle Speed Control43.53
Structure43.53
Wheels292
Unknown or Other292
Service Brakes, Hydraulic292
Steering292

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Harley-Davidson FLHTC, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Harley-Davidson FLHTC, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 14 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Harley-Davidson: all 105 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Harley-Davidson FLHTC: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/harley-davidson/flhtc/. 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
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 FLHTC model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 3, 2009 with 3, 2011 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Harley-Davidson FLHTC model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 9 of the 62 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Harley-Davidson FLHTC name?
Electrical System: 289.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 246.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 87 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Harley-Davidson FLHTC?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.