2022 HONDA GROM125 — Complaint #1788499
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION filed January 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1788499 (ODI reference 11447626) concerns a 2022 HONDA GROM125 and was filed on January 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 14, 2022. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA GROM125 cohort independently describe similar power train:manual transmission failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2022 HONDA GROM125 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I have 100 miles on my 2022 Honda Grom motorcycle. At around 50 miles it began making a noise it in 4th and 5th gear. I am worried that the noise in those gears may be causing other issues to my gearbox which can put me in danger. Neutral is hard to find and it sometimes slips into a false neutral that shows as â- -â. Once I was downshifting from 4rd to 3rd and it fell into the false neutral leaving me in a dangerous spot where I could not accelerate. I have contacted Honda but not heard back and I am going to see my dealer next Thursday to see if they are willing to help. Researching my issue online yielded similar stories from other people with the exact same model. Some of them have had to pay dealers for repairs and others were turned away saying thereâs no recall so they canât help. Please help Honda recognize this issue before someone gets hurt.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1788499 |
| ODI Number | 11447626 |
| Date Filed | January 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | January 14, 2022 |
| VIN | MLHJC9218N5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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