Recall · 22V031000
Kia Motors America recalled 5 models over air bags
410,619
Vehicles covered
5
Models
12
Model years
January 25, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Sedona, Soul, Soul EV, 2017-2018 Forte, and 2017 Forte Koup vehicles. The Air Bag Control Unit (ACU) cover may contact a memory chip on the printed circuit board and damage the electrical circuit. Circuit damage may result in deactivated air bags that will not deploy in a crash.
- What it can cause
- Air bags that do not deploy as intended can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the ACU, and either update the software or replace the unit, as necessary. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 21, 2022. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC226.
- 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 410,619 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% 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 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 10 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V164000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 9 of the 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,288 complaints with NHTSA, 450 of them before this campaign was filed. 97 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2016, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V724000 (power train), 23V218000 (electrical system), 21V725000 (exterior lighting), 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 January 25, 2022 as campaign 22V031000. 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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