Recall · 22V304000
Kia Motors America recalled 2 models over steering
30
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
May 5, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:COLUMN
- The defect
- Kia Motors America (Kia) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Rio and Forte vehicles. A bolt in the steering column may not be secured properly, which can cause the steering column to detach from the steering rack and result in a loss of steering control.
- What it can cause
- Loss of steering control can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will tighten the lower steering column u-joint retention bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 27, 2022. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall SC235.
- 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 30 vehicles this is a small campaign: 83% 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 2021 to 2022, 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 steering 5 times before this, most recently in July 2020 as 20V422000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 119 complaints with NHTSA, 23 of them before this campaign was filed. 17 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 21V936000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 21V164000 (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 May 5, 2022 as campaign 22V304000. 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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