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2014 Victory Cross Country Eight Ball 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 8, 2015
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 2, 2014

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2014 Victory Cross Country Eight Ball. 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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Driver assistanceEngine
Filed Aug 8, 2015

MY 2014 VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY EIGHT BALL MOTORCYCLE CONTINUOUSLY CUTS OFF. WHEN I DOWN SHIFT THE BIKE TO COME TO A STOP, THE BIKE MAKES A SPIT SOUND AND CUTS OFF. I HAVE ALSO HAD THE BIKE CUT OFF WHILE RIDING AND WHEN PULLING OFF FROM A DEAD STOP. I CALLED THE DEALER AND WAS TOLD NOT TO BLIP THE BIKE, BUT WHEN DOWNSHIFTING YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE BIKE GAS IN CASES WHERE YOU HAVE TO GET BACK UP TO SPEED. THE PROBLEM IS BEYOND IRRITATING BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE AN ACCIDENT BY STALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY. I HAVE FOUND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS FROM 2009 TO PRESENT REGARDING STALLING VICTORY MOTORCYCLES, HOWEVER, NUMEROUS DEALERS AND THE MANUFACTURER SAY THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS PROBLEM.

NHTSA ID
10747180
Incident
Sep 20, 2014
Mileage
400 mi
Body & structure
Filed Oct 2, 2014

RIGHT SADDLEBAG LATCH IS DEFECTIVE AND WEARING SEVERELY AT 5000 MILES IT HAS OPENED ALREADY AT HIGH SPEED MAKING THE BIKE AERODYNAMICALLY UNSTABLE. I'M LUCKY I DID NOT CRASH. BIKE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN HANDLING TERRIBLE. FORTUNATELY I WAS ABLE TO SLOW DOWN AND WHEN I DISCOVERED THE SADDLEBAG LID WAS OPEN CLOSED IT AND HANDLING RETURNED TO NORMAL. THESE SADDLEBAG LIDS ARE VERY LARGE AND HAVE A SHAPE LIKE RESEMBLING AN AIRPLANE WING. WHEN OPEN THEY GENERATE A LOT OF LIFT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. WHEN IT FAILS THERE WILL BE NO MECHANISM TO KEEP IT CLOSED. APPARENTLY THE MAJORITY OF BIKES OF THIS MODEL ARE AFFECTED SEE THIS THREAD ON A ASSOCIATED MOTORCYCLE FORUM HTTP://WWW.VICTORYFORUMS.COM/SHOWTHREAD.PHP?T=104498 THIS LATCH NEEDS A REDESIGN BY THE MANUFACTURER OR SOME SORT OF FIX BEFORE IT KILLS SOMEONE. *TR

NHTSA ID
10640898
Incident
Sep 30, 2014
Mileage
5,014 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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