Recall · 20V101000
Kia Motors America recalled the KIA Sedona over fuel system, gasoline
51,465
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
February 21, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM:FUEL RAIL
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2011-2012 Sedona vehicles. The fuel rail may crack from exposure to heat generated within the engine compartment, resulting in a fuel leak.
- What it can cause
- A fuel leak increases the risk of fire.
- What the dealer does
- Kia will notify owners, and dealers will replace the fuel rail, free of charge. The recall began June 16, 2020. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC188.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 51,465 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2011 to 2012, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the fuel system, gasoline 9 times before this, most recently in December 2018 as 18V907000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 172 complaints with NHTSA, 115 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 of those name the fuel system, gasoline, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2010, 9 years before this filing.
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Kia Motors America with NHTSA on February 21, 2020 as campaign 20V101000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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