Recall Register

Harley-Davidson FXDWG: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Harley-Davidson FXDWG, model years 1997 to 2013. NHTSA has 42 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 13 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. 19970
  2. 19980
  3. 19992
  4. 20000
  5. 20010
  6. 20021
  7. 20031
  8. 20050
  9. 20071
  10. 20081
  11. 20100
  12. 20120
  13. 20130
Harley-Davidson FXDWG: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0131%
2012 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0131%
2010 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0393%
2008 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page113402%538
2007 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page1262%10,397
2005 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0131%
2003 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page1393%31,070
2002 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page14124%1,762
2001 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0393%
2000 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0262%
1999 Harley-Davidson FXDWG26186%24,452
1998 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0131%
1997 Harley-Davidson FXDWG NHTSA page0262%

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

53 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 FXDWG: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel System, Gasoline226.412
Engine and Engine Cooling188.710
Engine113.26
Power Train75.54
Wheels56.63
Electrical System56.63
Equipment37.72
Fuel System, Other37.72
Suspension37.72
Service Brakes, Hydraulic37.72

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Harley-Davidson FXDWG, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Harley-Davidson FXDWG, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 10 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Harley-Davidson: all 105 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Harley-Davidson FXDWG: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/harley-davidson/fxdwg/. 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 FXDWG model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 2, 2008 with 1, 2007 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Harley-Davidson FXDWG model year has the most complaints?
The 2008 model year, with 13 of the 42 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Harley-Davidson FXDWG name?
Fuel System, Gasoline: 226.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 188.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 113.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Harley-Davidson FXDWG?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.