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2010 Harley-Davidson Flht Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Oct 22, 2016
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Oct 22, 2016

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2010 Harley-Davidson Flht. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Brakes
Filed Oct 22, 2016

I PULLED OUT OF MY GARAGE ON MY 2010 ELECTRA GLIDE CLASSIC AND WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE STOP SIGN ON THE STREET AT APPROX 10 MPH I WENT TO APPLY MY FRONT BRAKE AND FOUND I COULD NOT MOVE MY FRONT BRAKE LEVER. LUCKILY MY REAR BRAKE HAD WORKED AND I WAS ABLE TO STOP MOTORCYCLE BEFORE AND DAMAGE OCCURRED. THERE WAS NO APPARENT ISSUES WITH MY BRAKE SYSTEM (NO FLUID LEAKS) SO I CALLED MY HD DEALER AND THEY HAD TOLD ME MY ABS MODULE HAD FAILED DUE TO LACK OF CHANGING MY BRAKE FLUID AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. I HAVE OWNED MANY VEHICLES WITH ABS BRAKING OVER THE YEARS, AND CONTINUE TO OWN ABS BRAKING VEHICLES, AND HAVE NEVER HAD TO, OR REQUIRED TO CHANGE MY BRAKE FLUID TO PREVENT A CATASTROPHIC EVENT. YOU WOULD THINK THAT A MOTORCYCLE WITHOUT BRAKES IS AN EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS EVENT, AND IF HARLEY DAVIDSON KNEW THAT IF YOU DID NOT REPLACE THE BRAKE FLUID EVERY 2 YEARS YOUR BRAKE SYSTEM WOULD FAIL, THAT THEY WOULD BE VERY CLEAR IN LETTING ME KNOW THIS BOTH VERBALLY WHEN I PURCHASED THE BIKE, AND WITH SOME KIND OF SIGNAGE SOMEWHERE OBVIOUS ON THE BIKE TO STATE THAT IF YOU DON'T REPLACE BRAKE FLUID YOUR BRAKES WOULD FAIL.

NHTSA ID
10918042
Incident
Oct 22, 2016
Mileage
21,000 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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