India Yamaha Motor (IYM) has issued a recall for the YZF-R3 motorcycle in India. The reason for the recall is said to be possible issues with the bike’s radiator hose and torsion spring. This is the third time the R3 has been recalled by Yamaha in India and the first since it was relaunched earlier this year.
According to Yamaha, issues with the said parts might cause the radiator coolant to leak and the torsion spring to widen in the affected motorcycles. Yamaha haven't divulged exactly which torsion spring they are referring to but since it's mentioned in conjunction with the radiator coolant, we suspect it could be the radiator hose clamp. Although no problems of the sort have been reported by R3 owners in India, Yamaha has chosen to go ahead with the recall and rectify the issues at the earliest anyway.