I'm fairly recent back on the Forum, but was involved with the ignition switch recall and know the recall process, so will throw in my 2 cents.
ANYBODY who writes "they should" or "somebody" needs to learn that YOU are the person you're writing about. Every person who has this problem needs to file an individual report with NHTSA and it really is easy. Go to
https://www.safercar.gov and the form is on the right side of the page. It doesn't take long and without the information, NHTSA just has rumor to work with. NOTHING will happen if NHTSA doesn't have these reports on file and it takes a bunch of them.
As for Yamaha, they have folks who do work on the in-service complaints, but they are kept in an invisible bubble. You won't find them. But guess what? They pay a LOT of attention to what is on the NHTSA list of complaints.
One of the things that both organizations will watch for is whether this is a safety problem versus simply griping about common maintenance nuisances or cost. More detail is better and absolutely don't lie. (Us Feds can figure out what's bull.) What turned the tide on the ignition switch issue was learning about the people who had the thing die in heavy traffic.
Again, each person MUST file at:
[SIZE=14pt]https://www.safercar.gov/[/SIZE]
Checkswrecks
btw, I ride my 2007 daily into DC and will have to check my grounds the next time the tank is up, probably around Christmas. No problems so far (knocking on wood), I do ride rain regularly, and DC/Maryland use salt in the winter.
