2003 Honda TRX650
Safety record from NHTSA: recalls, owner complaints, investigations and service bulletins.
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Safety record from NHTSA: recalls, owner complaints, investigations and service bulletins.
These records cover every 2003 Honda TRX650. To see whether one car still needs a recall repair, decode its VIN or check it with NHTSA.
This involves a 2003 honda trx350 rancher atv. My wife was riding down a trail and both front shocks broke causing her to lose control of the vehicle . She went off of the road and down a slight embankment causing bumps and bruises. Fortunately she was not traveling faster or down a steeper road or it would have been much worse. After retrieving the vehicle we ordered new shocks at the local honda dealer and he told me it was a fluke that the shock broke. When I got home I checked the shocks on my sons 4-wheeler which IS also a 2003 honda 350 rancher and found that one of those shocks were broken also. I have just ordered a new shock for it also . I also cut the shock open to see what the problem was figuring that IS was probably metals fatigue, but to my amazement I saw that the nut that holds the piston on inside had come unscrewed. These are normally spot welded or riveted to help keep them in place, mine had broken. I am writing because I feel this IS a very unsafe condition and if this would have happened at a higher speed my wife or son could have been killed. *jb
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