Recall · 21V260000
Kia Motors America recalled the KIA Forte over engine and engine cooling
4,069
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
April 13, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:PUMP
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Forte vehicles equipped with a 2.0L Nu MPI engine. Foreign particles may stick inside the oil pump, which may cause an oil pump failure and engine damage.
- What it can cause
- A damaged engine may stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Kia will notify owners, and dealers will replace the oil pan, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed August 16, 2021. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC210.
- 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 4,069 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 72% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the engine and engine cooling 4 times before this, most recently in September 2017 as 17V586000. 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 435 complaints with NHTSA, 145 of them before this campaign was filed. 18 of those name the engine and engine cooling, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2017, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 22V031000 (air bags), 21V622000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 April 13, 2021 as campaign 21V260000. 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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