CV axle or driveshaft failure on the 2006 Yamaha Xvs1100
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 14 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When cv axle or driveshaft failure gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Yamaha Xvs1100 report CV axle or driveshaft failure at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 105,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 35,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 23,084 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
100% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,000 miles | 14,000 miles | 22,000 miles | 24,000 miles | 35,084 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $450–$2,200 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure, every year of the Yamaha Xvs1100
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I had just started out from a stop, shifted to second gear when the bike started to clatter. As I had been stopped at the local motorcycle repair shop, I returned there and left the motorcycle. The next day I called the shop and had the mechanic check the bike out. He told me that the middle drive shaft had come apart. Upon further inspection it was found the shaft had broken behind the retaing nut for the universal joint. This problem has been reported on several year model's of this motorcycle (yamaha v-star-1100) complaint's to NHTSA. Several reports of rear wheel locking up when this happens have been submited. There is one report on 04/24/2006 of a person having the same problem where the rear wheel had locked up prior to a crash in which she was rear-ended and killed. It is unknkwn if the rear wheel locking up because of a broken middle shaft caused this accident, but I would be suspect of this. I have been in contact with yamaha, and they hav not issued a recall for this but they have changed the manfacture of this part, which would indicate that they were aware fo a problem. As the cost of repair for this defective part is…
I had just started out from a stop, shifted to second gear when the bike started to clatter. As I had been stopped at the local motorcycle repair shop, I returned there and left the motorcycle. The next day I called the shop and had the mechanic check the bike out. He told me that the middle drive shaft had come apart. Upon further inspection it was found the shaft had broken behind the retaing nut for the universal joint. This problem has been reported on several year model's of this motorcycle (yamaha v-star-1100) complaint's to NHTSA. Several reports of rear wheel locking up when this happens have been submited. There is one report on 04/24/2006 of a person having the same problem where the rear wheel had locked up prior to a crash in which she was rear-ended and killed. It is unknkwn if the rear wheel locking up because of a broken middle shaft caused this accident, but I would be suspect of this. I have been in contact with yamaha, and they hav not issued a recall for this but they have changed the manfacture of this part, which would indicate that they were aware fo a problem. As the cost of repair for this defective part is…
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 yamaha 1100 silverado motorcycle. The contact stated that while driving 30 MPH, an abnormal noise was heard from the rear of the vehicle. The vehicle then lost all power but did not stall. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer where it was determined that the drive shaft had become shredded. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileages were 12,000. Updated 09/05/13*lj the consumer stated the drive shaft sheared in half/
Also reported on the 2006 Yamaha Xvs1100
Other powertrain problem
Other suspension problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 14 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does cv axle or driveshaft failure happen on the 2006 Yamaha Xvs1100?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is cv axle or driveshaft failure on the 2006 Yamaha Xvs1100?
14 reports have been filed with NHTSA. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
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