Recall · 23V830000
Kia America recalled 2 models over air bags
2,967
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
December 22, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2023 Soul and 2024 Seltos vehicles. Due to a manufacturing error, the side curtain air bags may deploy unexpectedly.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that deploys unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury or crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace both side curtain air bag modules as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 31, 2024. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC289.
- 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 2,967 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 70% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2023 to 2024, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2023, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 15 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V149000. 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 91 complaints with NHTSA, 16 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2022, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 25V099000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V531000 (power train), 23V298000 (electrical system).
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 December 22, 2023 as campaign 23V830000. 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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