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Harley-Davidson to Recall more than 300,000 motorcycles

I just received this from the Massachuetts Motorcycles Association.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MMA SAfety & Education Alert: Harley-Davidson to recall more than 308,000 motorcycles

The MMA has been alerted to a serious issue that can cause a failure in late model Harley-Davidson brakes. The news report was forwarded via the Associated Press and is worth taking the time to read. If you own a Harley-Davidson touring or trike model 2009 or later, the MMA strongly suggests contacting your local Harley dealer for the free recall service.

To read the article by the Associated Press follow the attached link.

http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2011/10/harley-davi...

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Neil MBN Founder on October 24, 2011 at 6:24pm

Thanks Josh for getting this info out. Tell your friends, everyone.

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Permalink Reply by The Duc on October 25, 2011 at 6:49pm

Now I'm curious:

Is it a design flaw of the part?

(if so who/where was it made)

Or a design flaw of the exhaust mounting?

Combination of both?

Somebody let us know if you find out.

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Herndon on October 25, 2011 at 9:01pm

I will find out tomorrow because I have to take my 2012 Road King in for the fix. I think it is because the location of the brake light switch is right near the cross over pipe and the catyletic converter and they didn't anticipate the higher heat generated by the converter causing the switch to fail. this isn't official, just my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Artlee on October 25, 2011 at 10:24pm

Josh, you have a 12 FLHR? I used to have a 94 RK - great bikes.

Still have ol' blue I hope. And, that thing hauled azz gettin' on 95 in Pittsfield that time!

I replaced the RBSw ( $10.00 from advanced auto parts ) on my FXR this year, old age I guess. I have been reading other places that the cat and location is killing the switch.

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Permalink Reply by D. R. Webb on October 28, 2011 at 8:32am

I would be interested in hearing from someone who had this done, before the Recall\Notice was made public.

I know of several HD 09-12 Touring Owners who have already paid roughly $65.00 for this replacement.

How will MoCo treat those Owners?

Possibly a GC?

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Herndon on October 28, 2011 at 11:33am

Just had this done this morning on my 2012 Road King. All that is done is to replace the switch with one that has had the internals changed to handle the heat better. It is assigned .2 hours labor for a bike without ABS and .48 hours with ABS. The difference being the time it takes to bleed the brake. I thought that there should have been some sort of heat shield added to deflect the heat from the catyltic converter, but no.