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2013 Can-Am Spyder RT Safety Recall - Elevated Temperature in Engine Compartment
Hi everyone,
We'd like to bring to your attention a voluntary safety recall on 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT vehicles meant to address a risk of skin burn or vehicle fire.
Some of you might have already seen the announcement for the safety recall on the Transport Canada website; we're expecting that it should be posted on the NHTSA site shortly as well. [UPDATE: NHTSA has now posted the recall as well.] Owners of affected units will also be mailed a letter to this effect.
If you have any questions, please post them in this thread and we'll address them as best we can. Thank you all for your input, patience, support and cooperation in helping us identify and address this issue.
Last edited by BRPcare; 02-26-2015 at 07:26 AM.
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so what will the fix be steve. i am sure people are going to want to know
NO BIKE AT THIS TIME
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Originally Posted by cuznjohn
so what will the fix be steve. i am sure people are going to want to know
The Canadian link says the fix is "under development."
Should be available by May 2015.
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Originally Posted by akspyderman
The Canadian link says the fix is "under development."
Should be available by May 2015.
i saw that buddy. just wanted to know if he would elaborate a lil on it
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BRP Does Not Care
T tried to make contact with BRP on several occasions re some kind of "klunkin" sounds in the front end of my 2013 STS SE5 along with the horrendous heat problem. They don't care. My dealer doesn't care. My wife seems not to care. I care! I am not so angry with BRP as I am disappointed with them. Oh well, life goes on. Love the contraption though. Just my "CanAm Lament."
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I am impressed with Can Am for this step!!
Hopefully all those with these problems will now find relief.
my 2 cents worth
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I sure hope this relieves the boiling gas and gas fumes.
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Thanks..!!
for keeping the site informed. Hopefully you will have further updates as they develop. Looking forward to the solution...
Gene and Ilana De Laney
Mt. Helix, California
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Thank god hope this works
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Safety Recall
Originally Posted by Bob Denman
Yeah, I know. I have sought help from the forums before and got great advice. I think I even got some from you (good advice , too!). I am just an old codger that can't get down low enough to try some of the suggestions. Hey, like the old saying, "when my butt gets lower than my knees, I get stuck. I am not angry, as I said in my post, just weary. As information, I have a loud klunking sound in the front end of my 2013 STS SE5 when it rocks from side to side. I can hear it on the road if I am. saaay under 30PMH. I have checked heim fittings, my sway bar, shocks and springs, tie rods, tightness of about every nut and bolt I can see and reach, but I can't see or get my hands all the way inside the machine yet to figure what else it could be. I am working on a lawnmower lift to raise the front end. I am extending the arms if the lift so they will accommodate the width of the front end and will lift it 30 inches. Then maybe I can get under enough to find out what it is. My dealer says it is just breaking in. So far I have broken it in for over about 9,800 miles. Huummm. The heat issue is typical of all the type posts I read: hot as hell but a lot more comfortable (I hope and trust). Thanks for your thoughts though. I just believe a company, Dealer or Manufacturer, should be a little concerned over complaints that seem to be more dangerous than a tire that won't hold airor a panel that is a misfit. I started my attempts to get some advice from the Dealer and BRP within a hundred miles of my purchase, and I bought it new with only a little under 4 miles on it. As I said before, I love my Spyder, and I will ride it till I wear it out, however long that takes, but I won't buy another unless things change drastically. Thanks again for your comment and interest.
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The actual website states 2013 for the year and Spyder for the model. It doesn't specify RT.
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Originally Posted by BRPcare
Hi everyone,
We'd like to bring to your attention a voluntary safety recall on 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT vehicles meant to address a risk of skin burn or vehicle fire.
Some of you might have already seen the announcement for the safety recall on the Transport Canada website; we're expecting that it should be posted on the NHTSA site shortly as well. Owners of affected units will also be mailed a letter to this effect.
Once the recall has been published on the NHTSA website, if you have any questions, please post them in this thread and we'll address them as best we can. Thank you all for your input, patience, support and cooperation in helping us identify and address this issue.
What about us RS riders with crispy fried legs?
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Originally Posted by tip
I am impressed with Can Am for this step!!
Hopefully all those with these problems will now find relief.
my 2 cents worth
I am not impressed at all. BRP was forced into this recall by the findings and actions of NHTSA. BRP should have acted on this heat issue months ago.
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Hi 03hdjill,
Originally Posted by 03hdjill
The actual website states 2013 for the year and Spyder for the model. It doesn't specify RT.
This recall addresses an issue occurring on the 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT models. Due to differences in airflow within the engine compartment, engine configuration and various other factors, only 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT models are included in this recall.
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Originally Posted by BRPcare
Hi 03hdjill,
This recall addresses an issue occurring on the 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT models. Due to differences in airflow within the engine compartment, engine configuration and various other factors, only 2013 Can-Am Spyder Roadster RT models are included in this recall.
The Canadian Road Safety Recall bulletin just said all 2013 Can-Am Spyders. That will surely cause a lot of confusion.
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Now that could be a major event at Spyderfest 2015.
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RT Fix?
I hope they have a fix that will actually work, I would like to actually ride my Spyder instead of it being a centerpiece for my garage.
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Originally Posted by tip
I am impressed with Can Am for this step!!
Hopefully all those with these problems will now find relief.
my 2 cents worth
Your impressed because the NHTSA forced them into a recall situation?
Frankly it should have been investigated and repaired over a year ago. Not 2 model years later and after being told repeatedly it was all in our heads that there was nothing wrong with the bikes.
Yes, I am glad to hear something is finally in the work. But again wait a few months and we might do something. I will believe its a real fix when I see it work. Until then, I really think this 'voluntary' business is yet another attempt to stave off having to do much of anything. Hope I am wrong, but its the way we have been treated so far. They also better be willing to update any of the 2013s that have already had work done to them by the owner trying to make the bikes safe and usable while waiting for BRP to get around to doing something.
I actually hope its body panels, an insulated gas tank and retrofit of the reversing fan from the 2014s.
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Thanks to one police department incident report and NHTSA
Short of that single incident(the cops spyder), and one other conveniently linked to it. Nothing would have gotten better. imo
Failure to support what one sells is why we are forced to have BIG BROTHER looking out for us.
Hope the fix works for all who own 13's.
Identify what you have control over and find peace with what you don't.
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Don't get too exited about this. I think it is the same thing I was a a volunteer for in August.
1. One exhaust shroud
2. Drilled 50 holes under seat at the rear
3. Side vent deflectors (which I had already bought)
4. Reverse the fan below 6 MPH
This did absolutely no good to solve any of the Heat or Gas fume problems for those of us who participated in this experimental program for BRP.
After Pitbull deleted the CAT and the above program did nothing I traded for a 2014 with none of the Heat and Gas Fume problems. This Major design problem will never be solved by all these Band Aids. It Will take a Major Design change or retrofit with the 1330 engine that BRP is not willing to finance. Meanwhile they will continue to string everyone along and give them false Hope IMHO. I do have a licensed flight and mechanical engineering back ground but by no means am I an expert.
A lot of money has been wasted by owners trying to solve BRP's mishap. The 2013 RT was to have a new frame and the 1330 engine and 6 speed transmission. At crunch time the 1330 Engine and Transmission were not ready. BRP decided to use the 998 engine in the new frame designed for the 1330 engine. There in lies the major problem. The 998 was barely able to fit properly due to the higher frame and less space and placing the exhaust and engine too close to the gas tank. It was this decision that has caused all the heartburn for a lot of us and cost us an arm an a leg. For those in the northern climes the problem is less due to the lower mean temps. BRP told us this as we were doing research to try to solve the problem and learned the problem was worse on the 2013 than the 2010, 2011, 2012.
Jack
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Thanks Jack
We can always depend on you for a straightforward answer. That is refreshing. Keep it up.
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