By year
Owner complaints about Victory vehicles peaked at 2 in 2017
Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, 2015 to 2026. 2026 runs through October.
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints and recalls files. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA.
Make
Victory
The complete NHTSA record for Victory vehicles: owner complaints, recall campaigns, defect investigations and manufacturer communications, for every model and model year on file.
Most Victory recalls are filed by Polaris Industries, part of Victory.
Owner complaints in the last five years414 on file in all, across 13 models
Recall campaigns40 in five years
Severity index14.3Crash, fire, injury or death per 100 complaints
Investigations128 service bulletins
Components
Powertrain draws the most owner complaints about Victory vehicles, 41% of them
Share of all owner complaints on file, by component.
Source: NHTSA ODI.
Models
The Cross Country Tour has the most complaints of any Victory model
Every Victory model with complaints or recalls on file, by complaints. Counts are not rates: NHTSA publishes no sales volumes.
| Model | Model years | Complaints | Severity index | Recalls | Investigations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Country Tour | 2015 to 2017 | 5 | 20.0 | 4 | 0 |
| Magnum | 2015 to 2017 | 3 | 33.3 | 4 | 0 |
| Cross Country | 2015 to 2017 | 1 | 0.0 | 4 | 0 |
| Gunner | 2015 | 1 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 |
| High Ball | 2015 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Hammer | 2017 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vegas | 2016 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cross Roads | 2015 to 2017 | 0 | None | 3 | 0 |
| Hardball | 2015 to 2017 | 0 | None | 3 | 0 |
| Cross Country Eight Ball | 2015 | 0 | None | 1 | 0 |
| Hammer Eight Ball | 2015 | 0 | None | 1 | 0 |
| Vegas Eight Ball | 2015 | 0 | None | 1 | 0 |
| Vision Tour ABS | 2015 | 0 | None | 1 | 1 |
Source: NHTSA ODI. Recall counts add campaigns across model years, so a campaign covering three years counts three times.
Latest recalls
Recent campaigns listing a Victory product
- 17V-647 Oct 12, 2017
If the engine misfires, continued riding may result in heat from the catalytic converter melting the rear brake line and nearby wiring
Engine and cooling · 26k vehicles - 15V-002 Jan 7, 2015
Fuel pump in the affected motorcycles may have been incorrectly crimped during manufacturing, which may result in the fuel pump seizing
Fuel system · 2,342 vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.