Recall · 23V877000
Kia America recalled the KIA Sorento over engine
79,812
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
December 21, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2011 Sorento vehicles. An engine compartment fire can occur while driving.
- What it can cause
- A fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install Knock Sensor Detection System (KSDS) software and replace the engine as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 9, 2024. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC291.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| KiaSorento | 2011 | 2011 |
How this campaign compares
At 79,812 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2011, so the oldest vehicles on it were 12 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the engine 5 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V844000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,517 complaints with NHTSA, 1,366 of them before this campaign was filed. 284 of those name the engine, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2010, 13 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 December 21, 2023 as campaign 23V877000. 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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