Recalls

Known Recall Investigations

  • Non-crash vehicle fires
    During this preliminary evaluation (pe), the office of defects investigation (odi) assessed the scope, frequency and potential safety-related consequences of non-crash vehicle fires caused by both engine failures and failures of other vehicle systems/components in model year (my) 2011-2014 kia optima, my 2011-2014 kia sorento and my 2010-2015 kia soul vehicles equipped with theta ii, gamma, nu and lambda ii engines (approximately 1.7 million vehicles). Odi also reviewed field and other data on other kia vehicles (approximately 3.6 million additional vehicles) equipped with the same engines used in the above-mentioned vehicles.As a result of this pe, kia has issued nhtsa recalls 20v-750 and 21v-844 to address potential engine failures and fires in certain kia vehicles equipped with various engine types.Additional information on these and other related recall actions is available in the downloadable version of this resume available at nhtsa.Gov.In addition, odi has upgraded this pe to an engineering analysis (ea) 21-003 which will focus on potential recall scope concerns and recall remedy concerns related to the engine failure-related recalls mentioned above and conducted previously.See the ea21-003 opening resume available at nhtsa.Gov for more information.Also available in the downloadable version of this resume is a list of the reference numbers for the 444 odi reports, or vehicle owner questionnaires (voqs), cited above which odi received through mid-november 2021.Note that the manufacturer reports cited above are customer complaints received through march 2019.
    Last updated on 2024-05-11 09:10:25

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