A software recall for 14,014 Can-Am motorcycles entered the US public record
BRP's instrument-cluster campaign, which NHTSA records as failing two federal motor vehicle safety standards at once, became searchable by vehicle identification number on September 22, with the fix delivered over the air or by a dealer.
A recall covering 14,014 Can-Am motorcycles built by Bombardier Recreational Products became searchable by vehicle identification number on the US regulator’s website on September 22, a date the recall record itself names. The manufacturer’s Part 573 report was filed on September 7.
The defect is in software. The recorded description says the instrument cluster “may reset, freeze, or go blank,” and that as a result the vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 123, covering motorcycle controls and displays, and Standard 122, covering motorcycle brake systems. The consequence given is that an inoperative cluster will not display critical safety information such as vehicle speed and warning lights.
The remedy is an over-the-air update or a dealer visit, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on October 12. The campaign covers the Can-Am Origin and Pulse in model years 2025 and 2026, the Canyon from 2025 to 2027, and the Spyder RT and Spyder F3 from 2024 to 2027.
Two details are worth noting for anyone reading the register programmatically, because they point the same way. The record’s structured over-the-air field is set to false while the remedy text beside it describes an over-the-air update. And its structured model rows stop at model year 2026 while its own summary text, and BRP’s owner notice, both run to 2027. In each case the machine-readable field and the prose in the same document disagree, and the prose is the one that is right.