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2000 Honda TRX350 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 Jun 24, 2005
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 24, 2005

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2000 Honda TRX350. 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 Jun 24, 2005

VEHICLE STARTS IN GEAR WITH NEUTRAL LIGHT ON CAUSING VEHICLE TO JUMP/MOVE ABRUPTLY FORWARD AS ENGINE STARTS WITH CHOKE ENGAGED (CHOKE ENGAGED CAUSES HIGHER RPM UPON START). NO UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR WAS NOTED PRIOR TO EVENT. AFTER INITIAL EVENT NOTED THAT NEUTRAL LIGHT IS ILLUMINATED IN FORWARD GEAR POSITION. APPEARS SOMEWHAT RANDOM. E.G. LIGHT OFF IN GEAR 2 BUT ON IN GEAR 3 BUT THEN DIFFERENT GEAR COMBINATION. VERIFIED THAT LIGHT IS OFF IN NEUTRAL SETTING - SO APPEARS TO OPERATOR TO BE IN GEAR CAUSING OPERATOR TO MOVE SHIFT TO NEUTRAL ILLUMINATED BUT NOW "IN GEAR" POSITION PRIOR TO START. IN MY OPINION THIS POSES AN EXTREME DANGER, ESPECIALLY TO INEXPERIENCED OPERATORS WHO USE THROTTLE AND REV ENGINE DURING NORMAL COLD START. CONSEQUENCES COULD INCLUDE PROPERTY DAMAGE, INJURY TO OPERATOR, INJURY TO OTHERS NEAR VEHICLE. AFTER INITIAL RESEARCH OF OWNERS MANUAL, CONTACTED BEN IN SERVICE DEPARTMENT AT CEDAR CREEK MOTOR SPORTS CEDARBURG WI ON JUNE 24, 2005 TO INQUIRE WHETHER THERE WERE ANY "STARTS IN GEAR" RECALLS FOR MODEL HONDA RANCHER ATV TRX350FM YEAR=2000. HE REPORTED THAT THERE ARE NO RECALLS RELATED TO THIS SYMPTOM. HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED INFORMATION ON HOW TO CORRECT THE FAILURE.

NHTSA ID
10126477
Incident
May 28, 2005

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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