Total Complaints
1 filings
HONDA CBR1000RR · model year
1 NHTSA complaints, and 1 active recall for this specific cohort.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 2013HONDACBR1000RR carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
Component-level analysis is where model-year complaints become actionable: the top complaint category for the 2013 CBR1000RR is service brakes with 1 filings. Concentration in one or two component groups is the classic signature of a systemic defect; a flat distribution usually reflects normal aging, warranty complaints, or isolated build-plant variability. This model year has 1 active recall campaign, which means the manufacturer is obligated to remedy the covered defect at no charge for the life of the vehicle — the full NHTSA campaign numbers are listed below.
NHTSA currently has 77 investigation files overlapping the 2013 CBR1000RR, and 9 remain open. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should pair the counters above with the complaint-by-year trend on the parent model page — a spike in a single year often tracks to a platform refresh, a new transmission supplier, or an updated ECU calibration. Use the related-complaint feed below to read raw owner narratives before deciding whether any pattern here affects your specific use case.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES | 1 |
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2007, 2009-2017 CBR600RR, 2008-2017, 2021 CBR1000RR, and 2010, 2012-2013 VFR1200 motorcycles. The fuel pump impellers may have been improperly molded, which can cause them to deform and result in fuel pump failure.
WHILE FEATHERING THE FRONT BRAKE OF THE BRAND NEW MOTORCYCLE, TO MODULATE THE BIKE'S SPEED BEFORE APPROACHING A TRAFFIC LIGHT, BRAKE LEVER BECAME MUSHY. SUBSEQUENT APPLICATION OF THE BRAKE LEVER RESULTED IN NO BRAKING / REDUCED BRAKING FORCE. THE SAME APPLICATION OF BRAKING POWER AT THE LEVER RESULTED IN THE LEVER MAKING IT FURTHER BACK TO THE HANDLEBAR. HONDA DEALER ATTEMPTED TO BLEED BRAKES TO RECTIFY THE ISSUE, AS INSTRUCTED BY HONDA. THE ISSUE, HOWEVER, PERSISTS, EVEN AFTER THE SECOND BLEEDING ATTEMPT BY THE DEALER. *TR
Mileage: 200
Inaccurate Rear Passenger Seat Belt Warning Status
Loss of Motive Power
Inadvertent Deployment of Side Air Bags
Engine failure
No Restart After Auto Start/Stop Engages
Data as of 2025. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.