Recall · 24V962000
Kia America recalled the KIA EV9 over seats
22,883
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
December 20, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2024-2025 EV9 vehicles. The second- and third-row seat mounting bolts may be missing.
- What it can cause
- Seats without mounting bolts may not properly restrain an occupant, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and install mounting bolts as necessary free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 24, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC329.
- 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 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 22,883 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 2024 to 2025, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2024, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the seats 4 times before this, most recently in June 2024 as 24V407000. 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 226 complaints with NHTSA, 48 of them before this campaign was filed. 14 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V545000 (air bags), 26V431000 (electrical system), 25V115000 (electrical system), 24V757000 (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 20, 2024 as campaign 24V962000. 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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