{"id":2538,"date":"2012-11-16T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:46:20","slug":"kawasaki-motors-recalls-fuel-filters-for-lawn-mower-and-utv-engines-impacts-some-john-deere-utvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/kawasaki-motors-recalls-fuel-filters-for-lawn-mower-and-utv-engines-impacts-some-john-deere-utvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki Motors Recalls Fuel Filters for Lawn Mower and UTV Engines:  Impacts Some John Deere UTVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Kawasaki Motors, today announced a voluntary recall fuel filters and tune-up kits with fuel filters. &nbsp;The recalled fuel filters are white translucent plastic and attach to the fuel tubes on Kawasaki lawn mower and utility vehicle engines. &nbsp;The fuel filter can leak, posing a fire hazard. &nbsp;To date all the reported leaks caused by the fuel filter have been on lawn mowers. &nbsp;<a title=\"Kawasaki recalls UTV fuel filters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/CPSCPUB\/PREREL\/prhtml13\/13041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: &nbsp;CPSC.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kawasaki engine fuel filter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml13\/13041a.jpg\" alt=\"Kawasaki engine fuel filter\" width=\"367\" height=\"366\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kawasaki engine fuel filter being recalled<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Related to this recall John Deere announced a recall of approximately 4,340 utility vehicles using this type of fuel filter. &nbsp;This recall involves John Deere TH, TS and TX-model Gator&#x2122; utility vehicles that have Kawasaki FE, FH and FJ series engines. The serial numbers of the UTVs included in the recall are:<\/p>\n<p>1M04X2SJ++M070915 to 1M04X2SJ++M072247<br \/>\n1M04X2XC++M070040 to 1M04X2XC++M070213<br \/>\n1M04X2XD++M070314 to 1M04X2XD++M072731<br \/>\n1M06X4HD++M070049 to 1M06X4HD++M070372<\/p>\n<p>They were sold nationwide from November 2011 to August 2012. &nbsp;Owners should stop using utility vehicles with the recalled engines and contact a John Deere dealer to have the fuel filter replaced. John Deere is contacting all registered owners of the recalled utility vehicles directly. &nbsp;John Deere can be contacted at&nbsp;(800) 537-8233.&nbsp;<a title=\"John Deere recalls UTVs for Kawasaki fuel filter issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml13\/13706.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: &nbsp;CPSC.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Kawasaki Motors, today announced a voluntary recall fuel filters and tune-up kits with fuel filters. &nbsp;The recalled fuel filters are white translucent plastic and attach to the fuel tubes on Kawasaki &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/kawasaki-motors-recalls-fuel-filters-for-lawn-mower-and-utv-engines-impacts-some-john-deere-utvs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,23,25,27],"tags":[1505,1504,689,706,1062,1375,1377],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation-policy","category-safety-2","category-sales-figures","category-sourcing","category-utility-vehicles","tag-engine","tag-fuel-filter","tag-john-deere","tag-kawasaki","tag-recall","tag-utility-vehicle","tag-utv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}