Recall Register

Yamaha Midnight Star: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Yamaha Midnight Star, model years 1999 to 2003. NHTSA has 28 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 5 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 19991
  2. 20001
  3. 20012
  4. 20021
  5. 20031
Yamaha Midnight Star: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Yamaha Midnight Star NHTSA page117304%29,139
2002 Yamaha Midnight Star NHTSA page16107%29,139
2001 Yamaha Midnight Star2589%49,139
2000 Yamaha Midnight Star NHTSA page100%20,000
1999 Yamaha Midnight Star NHTSA page100%20,000

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

28 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.

Yamaha Midnight Star: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train892.925
Suspension35.71
Structure35.71
Electrical System35.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Yamaha Midnight Star, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Yamaha Midnight Star, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 24 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Yamaha: all 40 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Yamaha Midnight Star: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/yamaha/midnight-star/. 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
YAMAHA MOTOR CORPORATION, USA

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 Yamaha Midnight Star model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 2, 2003 with 1, 2002 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Yamaha Midnight Star model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 17 of the 28 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Yamaha Midnight Star name?
Power Train: 25 component mentions. Suspension: 1 component mention. Structure: 1 component mention.