Yamaha Road Star: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Yamaha Road Star, model years 1999 to 2009. NHTSA has 316 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 11 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 3% | |
| 2008 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 3% | |
| 2007 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 7 | 24% | |
| 2006 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 3 | 10% | |
| 2005 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 7% | |
| 2004 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 0 | 20 | 70% | |
| 2003 Yamaha Road Star | 1 | 105 | 366% | 29,139 |
| 2002 Yamaha Road Star | 1 | 87 | 303% | 29,139 |
| 2001 Yamaha Road Star | 2 | 57 | 198% | 49,139 |
| 2000 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 1 | 18 | 63% | 20,000 |
| 1999 Yamaha Road Star NHTSA page | 1 | 15 | 52% | 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
325 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Power Train | 760 | 247 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 83.1 | 27 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 36.9 | 12 |
| Structure | 30.8 | 10 |
| Suspension | 24.6 | 8 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 12.3 | 4 |
| Wheels | 9.2 | 3 |
| Engine | 6.2 | 2 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 6.2 | 2 |
| Electrical System | 6.2 | 2 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Yamaha0 campaigns
- FJR13008 campaigns
- Road Star Warrior2 campaigns
- YZFR12 campaigns
- Bolt1 campaign
- Road Star Silverado2 campaigns
- YZF-R12 campaigns
- XV17002 campaigns
- FZ60 campaigns
- YZFR63 campaigns
- FJR1300A0 campaigns
- XV191 campaign
- XVS112 campaigns
- YZFR6L1 campaign
- Midnight Star2 campaigns
- Redundant Zuma1 campaign
- XVS652 campaigns
- YP4002 campaigns
- FZ-092 campaigns
- FJ-092 campaigns
- XTZ123 campaigns
- CP2502 campaigns
- WR250R2 campaigns
- VMX122 campaigns
- YZFR1K2 campaigns
- YZF-R35 campaigns
- YZFR36 campaigns
- XC1552 campaigns
- Xmax2 campaigns
- MT-092 campaigns
- Tracer 9 GT5 campaigns
- VMX172 campaigns
- YFZR1K2 campaigns
- YFZR1KC2 campaigns
- YFZR1L2 campaigns
- YFZR1LC2 campaigns
- YZFR3F/G2 campaigns
- FZS6002 campaigns
- YZFR1KC2 campaigns
- FJ12002 campaigns
- MT-032 campaigns
- XC155F2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Yamaha Road Star: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/yamaha/road-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
- 15 May 2019
- 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 Road 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 Road Star model year has the most complaints?
- The 2003 model year, with 105 of the 316 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Yamaha Road Star name?
- Power Train: 760 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 83.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 36.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Yamaha Road Star?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.