Recall · 23V634000
Kia America recalled the KIA Stinger over fuel system, gasoline
18,224
Vehicles covered
1
Model
4
Model years
September 13, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Stinger vehicles. The fuel control valve plunger may stick inside the high pressure fuel pump, causing over-pressurization and loss of drive power.
- What it can cause
- A loss of drive power can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the engine control unit software, inspect, and replace the fuel pump as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 18, 2023. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC281.
- 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 18,224 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 83% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2021, 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 fuel system, gasoline 16 times before this, most recently in January 2023 as 23V027000. 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 144 complaints with NHTSA, 77 of them before this campaign was filed. 9 of those name the fuel system, gasoline, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2018, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V169000 (engine and engine cooling), 21V862000 (electrical system), 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 America, Inc. with NHTSA on September 13, 2023 as campaign 23V634000. 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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