Recall Register

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, model years 2009 to 2026. NHTSA has 64 complaints on file for this model line. 2 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. 20091
  2. 20101
  3. 20111
  4. 20121
  5. 20130
  6. 20140
  7. 20150
  8. 20190
  9. 20220
  10. 20230
  11. 20242
  12. 20252
  13. 20261
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page1120%19,823
2025 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R224488%37,615
2024 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R218366%37,615
2023 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page0120%
2022 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page0120%
2019 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page0120%
2015 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page0120%
2014 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page0120%
2013 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page08163%
2012 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page1241%20,512
2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page1120%20,512
2010 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page100%20,512
2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R NHTSA page15102%20,512

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

79 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.

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine582.346
Electrical System139.211
Engine and Engine Cooling88.67
Unknown or Other88.67
Power Train50.64
Service Brakes25.32
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)12.71
Fuel/Propulsion System12.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2025, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2025, with 38 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Kawasaki: all 49 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kawasaki/ninja-zx-6r/. 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
KAWASAKI MOTORS CORP., U.S.A.

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 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R model years have the most recall campaigns?
2025 with 2, 2024 with 2, 2026 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R model year has the most complaints?
The 2025 model year, with 24 of the 64 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R name?
Engine: 582.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 139.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 88.6 per 1,000 component mentions.