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2017 Harley-Davidson Flrt 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 Feb 22, 2019
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 Jun 27, 2018

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2017 Harley-Davidson Flrt. 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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Transmission
Filed Feb 22, 2019

2017 HARLEY DAVIDSON FREEWHEELER. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO HYDRAULIC CLUTCH SYSTEM SAFETY RECALL. *LD *TR

NHTSA ID
11175411
Incident
Nov 5, 2018
Powertrain (other)
Filed Jun 27, 2018

THE VEHICLE HAD APPROX 1200 MILES ON ODOMETER. I TOOK IT TO DEALER FOR 1K MILE SERVICE. THEY CALLED BACK AND ADVISED ME OF A PROBLEM, I ASKED WHAT KIND, THEY ADVISED TEETH MISSING OFF OF DRIVE BELT, I ASKED HOW MANY , THEY REPLIED MORE THAN 20.. I HAD PREVIOUSLY NOTICED SLIGHT JERKING WHEN RELEASING CLUTCH AND GETTING UNDERWAY, BUT BLAMED IT ON OPERATOR ERROR.. THE AMOUNT OF TEETH MISSING COULD HAVE LED TO A CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF POWER. DON'T KNOW IF THE DRIVE BELT WAS DEFECTIVE, IT IS BEING REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY. POSSIBLE CAUSE COULD BE RELATED TO THE REAR PULLEY. UPON EXAMINATION IT SHOWED SIGNS OF EXTREME WEAR FOR 1200 MILES, INCLUDING GOUGES ON THE TIP OF EVERY TOOTH ACROSS THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF PULLEY. ALSO NOTICED THERE WAS DEFORMATION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF THE METAL TEETH RESULTING IN SOME SHARP EDGES BEING CREATED. THE FRONT (TRANSMISSION) PULLEY DID NOT SEEM TO BE AFFECTED, BUT DUE TO IT'S SMALLER SIZE THE LARGE SECTION OF MISSING TEETH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO ENCIRCLE IT, WHICH COULD HAVE LED TO A POSSIBLE LOSS OF POWER.

NHTSA ID
11104271
Incident
Jun 14, 2018
Mileage
1,200 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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