Recall · 25V024000
Kia America recalled 3 models over seats
80,255
Vehicles covered
3
Models
9
Model years
January 17, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Niro EV, Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV), and Hybrid vehicles. The floor wiring assembly beneath the front passenger seat may become damaged, which can prevent the front air bags and seat belts from deploying properly or cause an unintended side curtain air bag deployment.
- What it can cause
- Air bags and seat belts that deploy improperly or an air bag deploying unintentionally can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect, replace and reroute the floor wiring assembly, as necessary, free of charge. In addition, dealers will install wiring covers. Owner notification letters were mailed February 27, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC332.
- 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 80,255 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 model years 2023 to 2025, 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 seats 5 times before this, most recently in December 2024 as 24V962000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 93 complaints with NHTSA, 40 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2023, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 24V271000 (power train), 24V057000 (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 January 17, 2025 as campaign 25V024000. 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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