I got in contact with Victory today about the fender issue and needless to say I was not satisfied. After looking into the issue they did not find it a serious matter, even after consulting with NHTSA. I told him I did not agree with that assessment that a body part coming off a motorcycle while moving and affecting the steering is not a safety matter. He told me that since I was able to navigate and stop, that it was no greater a hazard than riding a motorcycle itself.

Apparently this is occurring in too few of numbers to make it an issue. I asked why they haven't made this public, and they said they did by calling people as they complained to address it. I asked if they could issue a recall for owners to inspect and have Victory replace the fenders before something serious happens. Again, it wasn't serious enough of a matter.

I find no point in filling up forums with comments that mean nothing, but I ask everyone who this has occurred to, to contact Victory over this issue. I contacted them through their facebook page and may put another post on it again after I collect my thoughts. The bottom line, if not caught in time, a rider may have "loss of control" due to a "body part" breaking and wedging the steering forks potentially causing a crash or fatal injury.

Again, don't fill up the forum with useless rants, but take positive action by first addressing this with Victory, and to the NHTSA as I plan to do. Thank you. I'm using this as one venue to alert and motive Vision owners to react as you see necessary. If you know of others not on the forums or on other forums, encourage them to bring their issue up to Victory, there is strength in numbers. A wrongful death suit over an $80 part will not bring a person back to life. Thank you for your time.

Vision-Marine - 2013-09-04 7:35 PM

I checked my 08 vision fender the other day and everything looked fine.

How did you check it?  To thoroughly check it, you need to remove it.  I proactively swapped the fender on my '12 Vision (less than 9k miles at the time) for a XC fender.  Only when I removed the fender to inspect it, did I notice the cracks.  They were small but would have grown over time (how much time, I don't know).  I could have ridden another 20k miles or another 20 miles.  Glad I checked it when I did.

I honestly believe Victory is not going to address this, at least not until it starts hurting their wallet.  Two or 3 years down the road when (if) Vision sales vastly decrease (and they believe it's because of this), the upper management may wake up and smell the coffee.  Until then, I guess it'll be up to the individual owners to proactively fix/replace the fender and check for cracks.  I hope and pray nobody outside the forums (who probably have no idea there's a problem) has their fender break and lock up their steering.  Even if that happens, since they're unaware of this issue, they'll probably never be able to get a penny out of Victory/Polaris as they should.

If anyone gets any air time with a TV station or a magazine wants an article, I'd be happy to participate.  Maybe public humiliation will be the only way Victory/Polaris will man up.  In the mean time, I'll continue to ride my Vision as much as I can.  I'll upgrade things as needed for my comfort (bars, seat, highway pegs and flip windscreen) but nothing else.  Assuming Victory/Polaris doesn't change their tune at some point, the next bike I get will NOT be a Victory/Indian/Polaris.

pete a - 2013-09-05 11:02 PM I removed my front fender both pieces yep you guessed it cracked. will be addressing the issue my self as I don't trust local Polaris rep who is also Indian REp.

Let Victory know, please.