Recall · 21V862000
Kia Motors America recalled the KIA Stinger over electrical system
53
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
November 5, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:INSTRUMENT PANEL:FUEL GAUGE
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Stinger vehicles. A software error in the instrument cluster may cause an inaccurate fuel gauge reading.
- What it can cause
- An inaccurate fuel gauge may result in the vehicle unexpectedly running out of fuel and stalling, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 10, 2021. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC219.
- 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 53 vehicles this is a small campaign: 77% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 13 times before this, most recently in July 2021 as 21V577000. 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 33 complaints with NHTSA, 8 of them before this campaign was filed. 8 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V169000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V634000 (fuel system, gasoline), 20V560000 (fuel system, gasoline), 20V518000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
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 November 5, 2021 as campaign 21V862000. 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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