Indian Motorcycle Recalls
Check open Indian Motorcycle recalls by VIN. CheckMyVIN queries NHTSA's live recall API on every lookup — no stale snapshots, no signup.
How Indian Motorcycle recall lookups work
When you enter an Indian Motorcycle VIN, CheckMyVIN first decodes the vehicle (make, model, model year) against NHTSA VPIC. Those three fields are then sent to the NHTSA recallsByVehicle API, which returns every open campaign on file. Each result shows the official NHTSA campaign number (format: two-digit year, "V" for vehicle, six-digit sequence — e.g. 19V472000), the affected component, a paraphrased plain-English summary, and the dealer remedy. Indian Motorcycle dealers perform recall work at no charge regardless of who currently owns the vehicle.
Why check Indian Motorcycle recalls before buying used?
A used-car dealer is not required to complete open recalls before sale in most US states. Run the VIN before the test drive — if a recall is open, you can either ask the dealer to complete it before delivery, negotiate the price, or schedule the free fix at an Indian Motorcycle authorized dealer after purchase.
Notable past Indian Motorcycle recall campaigns
A few well-documented campaigns to show the kind of data CheckMyVIN surfaces per VIN. Click any campaign number for the full record on nhtsa.gov. Summaries below paraphrase the official NHTSA records — verify against the source for the authoritative wording.
NHTSA campaign 19V776000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
2014-2019 Indian Chief, Chieftain, Roadmaster, Springfield
The gear position switch contacts can oxidize over time, which may make the display show neutral while the transmission is actually in gear. A rider who believes the bike is in neutral can have it lurch forward on release of the clutch, increasing crash risk. Dealers replace the gear position switch free of charge.
NHTSA campaign 20V454000
SERVICE BRAKES
2019 Indian Scout, Scout Sixty, Scout Bobber (ABS-equipped)
Air may have remained trapped inside the ABS brake circuit after factory assembly, which can reduce braking performance. Dealers bleed and verify the brake system at no charge. A related earlier campaign (19V156000) covered the same trapped-air condition on 2019 Scouts.
Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, via api.nhtsa.gov/recalls. Campaign numbers and components are verbatim from NHTSA; summaries are paraphrased.
What CheckMyVIN does not do
Some recalls are VIN-specific within a model year — only certain build dates or option packages are affected. NHTSA's public API returns the campaign for the year/make/model; for the final "is my exact VIN affected" answer, Indian Motorcycle also publishes a VIN-specific lookup on their owners site, and you can search any campaign number on the NHTSA recall portal. CheckMyVIN cites every campaign by its official number so you can verify independently.
Want the full spec decode for this Indian Motorcycle — engine code, assembly plant, model year, body class — alongside its recall history? Run it through the Indian Motorcycle VIN Decoder; the report covers both the NHTSA specifications and every open recall in a single sticker.
Researching before you have a VIN in hand? Browse the full Indian Motorcycle recall archive by model year — every NHTSA campaign since 1990, organized by year and model.