Recall Register

Yamaha Smax: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Yamaha Smax, model years 2015 to 2020. NHTSA has 3 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 6 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the Yamaha Smax is number 8 of 44 model lines of Yamaha on the 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. 20152
  2. 20162
  3. 20172
  4. 20182
  5. 20191
  6. 20201
Yamaha Smax: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Yamaha Smax NHTSA page100%4,262
2019 Yamaha Smax NHTSA page100%4,262
2018 Yamaha Smax21200%7,378
2017 Yamaha Smax200%7,378
2016 Yamaha Smax200%7,378
2015 Yamaha Smax22400%7,378

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

3 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 Smax: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine666.72
Electrical System333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Yamaha Smax, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2020, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Yamaha Smax, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2020, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Yamaha: all 44 model lines

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Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
23 Oct 2026
Complaint file through
25 Oct 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA

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Questions

Which Yamaha Smax model years have the most recall campaigns?
2018 with 2, 2017 with 2, 2016 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Yamaha Smax model year has the most complaints?
The 2015 model year, with 2 of the 3 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Yamaha Smax name?
Engine: 2 component mentions. Electrical System: 1 component mention.