Recall · 23V692000
Kia America recalled the KIA Borrego over structure
22,768
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
October 13, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2009-2014 Borrego vehicles. The 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 headliner 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 November 30, 2023. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC286.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| KiaBorrego | 2009 to 2014 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 22,768 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 85% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2009 to 2014, so the oldest vehicles on it were 14 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the structure 4 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V236000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 88 complaints with NHTSA, 83 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 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 September 2009, 14 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 23V652000 (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 October 13, 2023 as campaign 23V692000. 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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