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2005 HONDA CRF450X — Complaint #579192

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION:LUBRICANT filed April 13, 2006

NHTSA complaint #579192 (ODI reference 10155333) concerns a 2005 HONDA CRF450X and was filed on April 13, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 29, 2005. The vehicle had 400 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission:lubricant, 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 CRF450X cohort independently describe similar power train:manual transmission:lubricant 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 2005 HONDA CRF450X shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 HONDA CRF450X
Component
POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION:LUBRICANT
State
California
Mileage
400 mi

Complaint Description

MY '05 HONDA CRF450X IS A GREEN STICKER MOTORCYCLE WHICH IN CALIFORNIA IS STREET LICENSABLE WITH ADDITIONS TO MEET THE LIGHTING STATUES AND DOT LEGAL TIRES. MY BIKE WAS INSPECTED BY DMV AND ISSUED A STREET LICENSE. THE OWNER'S MANUAL RECOMMENDS THAT YOU SHOULD PUT .69 OF A US QUART IN THE TRANSMISSION SIDE OF THE BIKE. WITH 20 HOURS OF OPERATION, AND THREE CHANGES OF BOTH THE MOTOR OIL AND THE TRANSMISSION OIL, MY BIKE SUFFERED A MAJOR TRANSMISSION LOCKUP AT 55 MPH, CAUSING ME TO GO INTO ON-COMING TRAFFIC IN A RIGHT HAND TURN, AS EVEN PULLING THE CLUTCH LEVER WOULD NOT LET THE REAR WHEEL FREE SPIN. HAD THERE BEEN AN ON-COMING CAR, I WOULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED OR POSSIBLY KILLED. UPON INSPECTION BY A HONDA MOTORCYCLE DEALER IT WAS FOUND THAT THE TRANSMISSION'S UPPER STACK OF GEARS HAD THIRD GEAR WELDED TO THE UPPER COUNTER SHAFT DUE TO LACK OF LUBRICATION. HONDA FAILED TO WARRANTY THE REPAIR EVEN THOUGH I STILL HAD THE STOCK TIRES ON THE BIKE. INTERNET FORUMS SUCH AS THUM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 579192
ODI Number 10155333
Date Filed April 13, 2006
Failure Date December 29, 2005
VIN JH2PE061X5K

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.