Recall · 24V025000
Kia America recalled 2 models over structure
101,049
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
January 18, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Sportage and 2022-2024 Carnival vehicles. The roof molding may loosen and detach.
- What it can cause
- A detached roof molding can create a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the roof molding and replace or secure it as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 15, 2024. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC292.
- 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 101,049 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% 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 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the structure 5 times before this, most recently in October 2023 as 23V692000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 505 complaints with NHTSA, 195 of them before this campaign was filed. 61 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, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 12 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V232000 (fuel system, gasoline), 25V874000 (trailer hitches), 24V422000 (steering), 23V531000 (power train).
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 January 18, 2024 as campaign 24V025000. 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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