Equipment: motorcycle: helmets (Cosmopolitan Motors)
Vehicle equipment recall 78E-003. NHTSA received COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC.’s report on Mar 6, 1978.
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The short answer
NHTSA received COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC.’s report on Mar 6, 1978. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
THE INVOLVED HELMETS FAIL TO CONFORM TO FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARD NO. 218, “MOTORCYCLE HELMETS”.
THEY FAILED THE PENETRATION TEST.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Equipment: motorcycle: helmets.
What should you do?
THE DEALER WILL REPLACE THE INVOLVED HELMETS WITH ONES THAT MEET THE STANDARD, WITHOUT CHARGE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: MOTORCYCLES.SYSTEM: EQUIPMENT; HELMETS, MODEL AGO/X-3000.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: HELMETS THAT FAIL TO RESIST PENETRATION COULD RESULT INSERIOUS HEAD INJURY TO USER IN THE EVENT OF A VEHICLE ACCIDENT.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 148 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Cosmopolitan Motors HelmetNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by COSMOPOLITAN MOTORS, INC..
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.