Recall · 22V560000
Kia Motors America recalled the KIA Optima over structure
257,998
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
August 1, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2012-2013 Optima vehicles. The right and left headliner plates may not be secured properly, which can result in the plates detaching in the event of a side curtain air bag deployment.
- What it can cause
- A plate that detaches during a crash may strike an occupant, increasing their risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will secure the headliner plates, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 26, 2022. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC245.
- 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 257,998 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2012 to 2013, so the oldest vehicles on it were 10 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the structure 2 times before this, most recently in May 2018 as 18V338000. 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 2,299 complaints with NHTSA, 1,643 of them before this campaign was filed. 166 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2011, 10 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V652000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 22V093000 (fuel system, gasoline), 21V331000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 20V519000 (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 August 1, 2022 as campaign 22V560000. 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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