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2012 Kawasaki KLX250 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 26, 2012
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 26, 2012

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2012 Kawasaki KLX250. 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.

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Suspension
Filed Jun 26, 2012

2012 KAWASKI KLX250 MOTORCYCLE. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO FRONT WHEEL CAMBER PROBLEM *TGW THE CONSUMER STATED WHILE RIDING THE BIKE, HE NOTICED THE HANDLEBARS WERE NOT SQUARE TO THE BIKE WHEN TRAVELING IN A STRAIGHT LINE. INSTEAD, THEY WERE COCKED TO THE RIGHT. UPON CLOSER INSPECTION, HE NOTICED THE FRONT WHEEL HAD A CAMBER PROBLEM. HE NOTICED THE AXLE WAS NOT SQUARE TO THE FRONT FORKS, WHICH CAUSED THE TOP OF THE WHEEL TO BE CLOSER TO THE LEFT FORK, THAN THE RIGHT FORK AND CAUSED THE BIKE TO PULL TO THE LEFT WHEN TRAVELING WITH THE HANDLEBARS SQUARE TO THE BIKES FRAME. BY TURNING THE HANDLEBARS TO THE RIGHT, THE BIKE WOULD TRAVEL IN A STRAIGHT LINE, BUT WAS CAUSING THE BIKE TO RUN ABNORMALLY AND THE FRONT WHEEL NOT TO SPIN IN THE SAME PLANE AS THE REAR WHEEL. MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT WAS CAUSING THE FORKS TO BIND. THE CONSUMER STATED THE BINDING PROBLEM HAS BEEN EXACERBATED BY THE FACTORY USING EVERY BIT OF THE CLEARANCE OF THE INVOLVED PARTS TO SOMEWHAT CORRECT THE CAMBER ISSUE. THEY DID SO, BY CLAMPING THE LEFT FORK SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN THE YOKE THAN THE RIGHT FORK. THE CONSUMER BELIEVED THE DEFECT WAS PRODUCED IN ONE OF TWO WAYS; EITHER THE AXLE JOURNALS WERE DRILLED INCORRECTLY, AT AN ANGLE OTHER THAN 90 DEGREES TO THE FORKS, OR THE ALUMINUM CASTINGS WHICH CONTAINED THE AXLE JOURNALS WERE CASTED INCORRECTLY ONTO THE STEEL TUBES THAT ACCEPTED THEM. EVEN THOUGHT THE AXLE JOURNALS WERE DRILLED INCORRECTLY, THEY WERE NOT AT 90 DEGREES TO THE FORKS BECAUSE OF THE MISALIGNED CASTINGS. AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION, THE CONSUMER WAS MORE INCLINED TO BELIEVE IT WAS DUE TO IMPROPER CASTING. *JB

NHTSA ID
10463666
Incident
Jun 1, 2012

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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