CSR

Recall · 24V214000

Kia America recalled the KIA Telluride over power train

427,407

Vehicles covered

1

Model

5

Model years

March 20, 2024

Filed with NHTSA

POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT

The defect
Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2020-2024 Telluride vehicles. The intermediate shaft and right front driveshaft may not be fully engaged, which can result in vehicle roll away while in PARK.
What it can cause
A vehicle roll away increases the risk of a crash or injury.
What the dealer does
Owners are advised to manually engage the emergency parking brake prior to exiting the vehicle until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will update the electronic parking brake software and replace any damaged intermediate shafts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 15, 2024. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC303.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
KiaTelluride2020 to 202420202021202220232024

How this campaign compares

At 427,407 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.

Kia vehicles have been recalled over the power train 14 times before this, most recently in January 2024 as 24V057000. 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 1,837 complaints with NHTSA, 789 of them before this campaign was filed. 160 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2019, 5 years before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V430000 (seats), 25V494000 (structure), 24V407000 (seats), 24V148000 (exterior lighting).

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 March 20, 2024 as campaign 24V214000. 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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