Recall · 21V725000
Kia Motors America recalled the KIA Sedona over exterior lighting
88,576
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
September 17, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2015-2017 Sedona vehicles. The Smart Junction Box (SJB) software logic may not properly interpret the signals received from the multifunction switch, which could cause the turn signal to activate in the opposite direction of what the driver intended.
- What it can cause
- A turn signal activating in the opposite direction of what was intended by the driver increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the SJB software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 12, 2021. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC217.
- 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.nhtsa.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 88,576 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2017, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 6 times before this, most recently in October 2018 as 18V771000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 563 complaints with NHTSA, 181 of them before this campaign was filed. 65 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2015, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 22V612000 (power train), 22V031000 (air bags).
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 September 17, 2021 as campaign 21V725000. 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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