June 5, 2019 NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 19V418000
Rear Brake Lights May Fail to Illuminate
A failure of the brake light to illuminate, or continued illumination when the brakes are not being applied, can increase the risk of a crash.
NHTSA Campaign Number: 19V418
Manufacturer Suzuki Motor of America, Inc.
Components EXTERIOR LIGHTING
Potential Number of Units Affected 2,640
Summary
Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. (Suzuki) is recalling certain 2018-2019 GSX250R motorcycles. Water intrusion may corrode the rear brake light switch causing the rear brake light to fail to illuminate or remain illuminated continuously when the brake is not applied.
Remedy
Suzuki will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear brake stop light switch, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin June 28, 2019. Owners may contact Suzuki customer service at 1-800-934-0934. Suzuki’s number for this recall is 2A90.
Notes
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
Check if your Suzuki Motorcycle has a Recall
Date: May 30, 2019
| TO: | Selected Motorcycle Distributors |
| ATTN.: | Managing Director Service Director or Manager |
| CC: | Spare Parts Manager |
SUBJECT: GSX250R Rear Brake Light Switch Replacement Recall Campaign
Dear Sirs and Madams,
This letter is to inform you of the “Rear Brake Light Switch Replacement Recall Campaign” for GSX250R produced by CHANGZHOU HAOJUE SUZUKI MOTORCYCLE CO., LTD. ‘(CZHS), from December 10, 2015 (SOP) to March 6, 2019
Due to improper material for component parts were used in the rear brake light switch, the component parts in the switch will corrode by intrusion of water.
Continued use in this condition, poor conductivity or short circuit will occurs in the brake switch circuit. In worst case, the break light will not activate or continue to lighting.
In view of the nature of this problem, Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) has decided to carry out the Recall Campaign in your market. The details are explained in the following pages.
You are kindly requested to organize the Recall Campaign for the affected units in your market. If you are required to report to your authority, please contact them according to your law.
If you have affected units in your warehouse, you are required to remedy them before releasing to your dealers. You are also immediately required to instruct your dealers to remedy the affected unit in stock if any, before delivering them to the customers.
Please make sure that no customers will receive the affected units without appropriate Recall campaign remedy.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you. Your cooperation and assistance will be highly appreciated.
If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime.
Very truly yours,
Shinji Ishikawa
Department General Manager
Overseas Service Department
Action
- For the affected units before retail sales, you are requested to remedy them before delivering them to the customers.
- For the affected units after retail sales, contact the customers of the units to let them bring their vehicles to your authorized dealers.
- Order the replacement parts through SCAN system.
- Report to the authority according to your law.
- Issue service bulletin to dealers and customer letter to owners.
- Perform a corrective work following the repair instruction of Annex3.
- Once the corrective work is done, destroy replaced parts at your responsibility to prevent reuse of the potentially failed parts.
Affected Models
Model: GSX250R
Production Period: Produced at CZHS from December 10, 2015 (SOP) to, March 6, 2019.
Affected VIN range and units quantity in your market: Please refer to attached VIN list of ANNEX2.
Replacement Parts
SMC have already prepared 80% of replacement parts against affected units.
Please order the replacement parts through SCAN system.
(If spare parts are purchased from MSC, please order to MSC)
| Part name | Part number | Q’ty |
| SWITCH ASSY, STOP LAMP | 37740-45DRO-RXO | 1 |
Warranty Reimbursement Information
This is a Recall campaign that is acceptable only one time for one unit.
Submit the warranty claim applications to SMC under the following terms.
| Claim category | 2 (Campaign) | ||
| Trouble Code | 97-ER | ||
| Basic code | *9999 | ||
| Causal Part Name | Causal Part No. | Q’ty | Flat Rate(Hr) |
| SWITCH ASSY, STOP LAMP | 37740-45DRO-RXO | 1 | 0.6 |
2 Affected Products
Vehicle
| MAKE | MODEL | YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| SUZUKI | GSX250R | 2018-2019 |
4 Associated Documents
Chronology
RMISC-19V418-4750.pdf 51.993KB
Defect Notice 573 Report
RCLRPT-19V418-9665.PDF 213.613KB
Recall Acknowledgement
RCAK-19V418-4205.pdf 244.786KB
Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – To: Selected Motorcycle Distributors – May 30, 2019
RCMN-19V418-2964.pdf 130.841KB
Recalls Documents
https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/cs/documentList.xhtml?docId=19V418&docType=RCL
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