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2005 Kawasaki Ninja 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 Aug 17, 2014
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 Aug 17, 2014

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2005 Kawasaki Ninja. 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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Body & structure
Filed Aug 17, 2014

I WAS CLEANING MY BIKE AND NOTICED CRACKING COMING UP THE SIDE OF THE FRAME. THEN I LOOKED IT UP ON LINE AND FOUND OTHER 2004 AND 2005 KAWASAKI'S THAT HAD THE SAME ISSUE. AFTER ATTEMPTING TO LOOK UNDER THE PLASTIC OF THE BIKE TO SEE THE EXTEND OF THE CRACK, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE THAT THE WHOLE WELD WAS CRACKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FRAME. I CONTACTED KAWASAKI VIA PHONE AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TAKE MY BIKE TO A KAWASAKI DEALER AND THEY WOULD TELL ME WHAT COULD BE DONE. I TOOK THE BIKE TO OUR LOCAL DEALERSHIP, EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED, THEY EXAMINED THE BIKE, TOOK PICTURES AND CALLED KAWASAKI HEAD QUARTERS. I WAS TOLD TO LEAVE THE OFFICE OF THE DEALERSHIP WHEN THEY WERE TALKING TO HEADQUARTERS. THIS MADE ME QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE THEY PROBABLY KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING AND WERE BEING DISHONEST WITH ME. AFTER A FAIRLY SHORT CONVERSATION, I WAS TOLD BY THE DEALER THAT KAWASAKI WOULD SEND A NEW FRAME TO A KAWASAKI DEALER AT NO COST, BUT THAT I WOULD NEED TO PAY ALL OF THE LABOR AND ADDITIONAL PARTS COSTS. I WAS GIVEN AN APPROXIMATE ESTIMATE OF $1500.00. AFTER SEEING SEVERAL OTHER POSTS REGARDING THIS SAME PROBLEM AND THE FACT THAT KAWASAKI READILY WAS WILLING TO SEND THE FRAME, I FEEL THEY ARE VERY AWARE OF THIS DEFECT IN THESE MOTORCYCLES AND ARE KNOWINGLY PUTTING LIVES IN HARMS WAY. I FEEL A RECALL WOULD BE THE RIGHT THING FOR KAWASAKI TO DO. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MYSELF OR ANYONE ELSE GET HURT ORKILLED DUE TO THESE DEFECT. *TR

NHTSA ID
10625830
Incident
Jul 14, 2013
Mileage
12,000 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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