2002 Yamaha Xvs1100: what breaks, and at what mileage
What breaks on the 2002 Yamaha Xvs1100
Only 3 defect reports have been filed with NHTSA about the 2002 Yamaha Xvs1100, which is too few to compute mileage percentiles or a risk score. The reports reported CV axle or driveshaft failure.
When each failure gets reported
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
How reports accumulate
Every report with an odometer reading, cumulative, from 0 to 200,000 miles. A curve that climbs early is a car with early problems, whatever its total.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
Every reported failure mode
| Failure mode | System | Reports | With reading | 25th | Median | 75th | Per 1,000 | Typical repair | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CV axle or driveshaft failure | drivetrain | 2 | 2 | — | 51k | — | — | $450–$2,200 | High |
| Other powertrain problem | transmission | 1 | 1 | — | 16k | — | — | $400–$4,500 | High |
No fleet-size estimate is available for this year, so only raw counts are shown. Repair costs are typical independent-shop ranges for the failure, not figures from these reports.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The odometer reading is the one the owner gave.
CV axle or driveshaft failure
I was riding along on us 380 in mckinney, tx and as I approached a signal light, I began to slow down and that's when I heard a mysterious wining sound. The signal turned green and as I began to accelerate, the wining progressed to a loud clanking and grinding sound so I stopped to check the drive shaft, it was fine. I called for a trailer and transportation of the motorcycle back to my hometown of denison, tx, 52 miles one way. Upon returning home, I dismantled the motorcycle and found that the nut on the of power shaft (middle drive gear) had broken off. In, doing so it destroyed a few other parts inside the gearbox as well. I was quoted $3000.00 at my local yamaha dealership. If I purchase the parts and do it myself I'm looking at about $1500.00 to fix it. Either way, I do not have the finances at the time to fix it, this is my only transportation. I have talked to several people in person and through yamaha forums that have had the same problem. Something needs to be done! Yamaha is aware of this problem and refuses to make it right by their customers. *tr
Other powertrain problem
Yamaha v-star middle shaft engineering defect... There is many cases of this failing all over the net time and time again... Defect that yamaha has with the middle shaft on their shaft drive v star motorcycles... *tr
Every year of the Yamaha Xvs1100
Scores compare each year against other cars of the same model year, so a low number on an older car is a real result and not an artefact of age.
Shorter is better. Years with too few reports to score are shown without a bar rather than as a zero, because no data is not good news.
What the reports on file say
The complaints recorded against the 2002 Yamaha Xvs1100 are CV axle or driveshaft failure (2 reports, around 51k miles) and other powertrain problem (1 report, around 16k miles). With a sample this size these are anecdotes rather than a pattern, and they are shown because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see them than nothing.
Why this page is short
A model year needs about 8 reports before percentiles mean anything, and this one does not have them. Complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road, so a thin page usually means a rare car, a new car, or a car whose owners do not file.
Other years of the same model do have enough: 2006. The mechanical parts are often shared across those years, so their pages are the better guide to what this one is likely to do, with the caveat that a shared part is not a shared production line.
Where this comes from. Every figure above is computed from NHTSA owner complaints and recall records for this exact make, model and year. Complaints are voluntary and self-selected, so treat counts as a floor. The methodology page writes out each formula, and the same numbers are available as JSON.
What breaks at my mileage Compare with another car
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed