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Yamaha will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your motorcycle to a dealer to replace the transmission assembly with one that has an updated design and reprogram the electronic control unit (ECU)

ionbeam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:30 pm

Yamaha will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your motorcycle to a dealer to replace the transmission assembly with one that has an updated design and reprogram the electronic control unit (ECU)

Possibly this is the European AS auto clutch models. No AE/AS in the US so no recall.

bill lumberg wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:36 pm Just great. I hear that they’ve recalled a handful of bikes, and now mine is getting terrible gas mileage. Mine burned almost 35 gallons of gas yesterday alone. This is terrible.

wheatonFJR wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:53 pm Now I feel lucky to have the mighty ‘13.

ionbeam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:56 pm

Edit: The two ranges of VINs that were posted here from which I got this VIN have mysteriously disappeared.

ionbeam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:56 pm So this VIN is for a 2020 motorcycle and it is the 5569th bike off the assembly line. How many FJRs does Yamaha build every year? At least 5569 bikes.

wheatonFJR wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:53 pm Now I feel lucky to have the mighty ‘13.

raYzerman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:04 pm

ionbeam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:56 pm So this VIN is for a 2020 motorcycle and it is the 5569th bike off the assembly line. How many FJRs does Yamaha build every year? At least 5569 bikes.

Not necessarily true.... auto experience at play on a muli-vehicle assembly line... the manufacturer is only required to establish the last six digits for records. The rest of the VIN designates model year, etc. They can choose a range for a certain homologation, so German ones may be a certain range (theoretically let's say the 4-5000 series, US might be the 0-2000 series. Doesn't mean they built 5569 that year, that would be a max, but the actual total FJR's made could be less.
In auto, we never started the last six number with a zero for a new model year at my plant. However Yamaha wants to do it is up to them as long as there is never a duplicate VIN.
There is a second system called Sequence Number, that is for internal control only and assignment of the order in which the vehicle travels down the assembly line... and the order in which they come off. You would never know this number unless someone left a build sheet in the vehicle, but don't use many of those either, it's a bar code that is scanned at various stages so we know where it is in the plant.
We didn't batch build either unless it was in paint, but they went into a buffer and were randomly assigned another sequence number for the trim and final line. Motorcycles are very most likely batch built and the line stocked with components for that build, kinda silly if they weren't actually.

wheatonFJR wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:05 pm

raYzerman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:04 pm

ionbeam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:56 pm So this VIN is for a 2020 motorcycle and it is the 5569th bike off the assembly line. How many FJRs does Yamaha build every year? At least 5569 bikes.

Not necessarily true.... auto experience at play on a muli-vehicle assembly line... the manufacturer is only required to establish the last six digits for records. The rest of the VIN designates model year, etc. They can choose a range for a certain homologation, so German ones may be a certain range (theoretically let's say the 4-5000 series, US might be the 0-2000 series. Doesn't mean they built 5569 that year, that would be a max, but the actual total FJR's made could be less.
In auto, we never started the last six number with a zero for a new model year at my plant. However Yamaha wants to do it is up to them as long as there is never a duplicate VIN.
There is a second system called Sequence Number, that is for internal control only and assignment of the order in which the vehicle travels down the assembly line... and the order in which they come off. You would never know this number unless someone left a build sheet in the vehicle, but don't use many of those either, it's a bar code that is scanned at various stages so we know where it is in the plant.
We didn't batch build either unless it was in paint, but they went into a buffer and were randomly assigned another sequence number for the trim and final line. Motorcycles are very most likely batch built and the line stocked with components for that build, kinda silly if they weren't actually.

In the early years of PDP I saw photographs of VINs that proud people showed off at delivery time, some with numbers less than 10.