Recall · 23V236000
Kia America recalled the KIA Carnival over structure
51,568
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 31, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling all 2022 and certain 2023 Carnival vehicles. The auto-reverse feature for the power sliding doors (PSD) may not activate in all situations.
- What it can cause
- A power sliding door that does not auto-reverse can close on an occupant, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the power sliding door control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 28, 2023. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC266.
- 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 51,568 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, 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 structure 3 times before this, most recently in August 2022 as 22V560000. 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 183 complaints with NHTSA, 62 of them before this campaign was filed. 44 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 May 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V232000 (fuel system, gasoline), 24V025000 (structure), 23V179000 (trailer hitches), 21V908000 (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 America, Inc. with NHTSA on March 31, 2023 as campaign 23V236000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2023-03-31.
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