Recall Register

Harley-Davidson FLHTK: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Harley-Davidson FLHTK, model years 2010 to 2023. NHTSA has 161 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 14 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. 20103
  2. 20112
  3. 20121
  4. 20130
  5. 20145
  6. 20152
  7. 20161
  8. 20172
  9. 20182
  10. 20191
  11. 20201
  12. 20211
  13. 20221
  14. 20230
Harley-Davidson FLHTK: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2023 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page0217%
2022 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page119%199,419
2021 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page1217%199,419
2020 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page119%199,419
2019 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page1435%12,733
2018 Harley-Davidson FLHTK2435%190,369
2017 Harley-Davidson FLHTK2870%190,369
2016 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page11087%27,232
2015 Harley-Davidson FLHTK21087%292,238
2014 Harley-Davidson FLHTK537322%484,002
2013 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page014122%
2012 Harley-Davidson FLHTK NHTSA page119165%250,757
2011 Harley-Davidson FLHTK220174%425,393
2010 Harley-Davidson FLHTK329252%536,962

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

210 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 FLHTK: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes285.760
Power Train142.930
Engine123.826
Electrical System76.216
Wheels66.714
Vehicle Speed Control47.610
Steering42.99
Fuel/Propulsion System38.18
Structure33.37
Unknown or Other28.66

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Harley-Davidson FLHTK, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2014, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Harley-Davidson FLHTK, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 21 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Harley-Davidson: all 105 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Harley-Davidson FLHTK: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/harley-davidson/flhtk/. 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 Company

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 FLHTK model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 5, 2010 with 3, 2018 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Harley-Davidson FLHTK model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 37 of the 161 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Harley-Davidson FLHTK name?
Service Brakes: 285.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 142.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 123.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Harley-Davidson FLHTK?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.