Recall · 25V426000
Kia America recalled the KIA Niro EV over back over prevention
11,327
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
June 20, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Niro EV vehicles. The circuit board for the rearview camera may become damaged and cause the rearview camera image not to display. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What it can cause
- A rearview image that does not display reduces the driver's view of what is behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the rearview camera, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 7, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC342.
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 11,327 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 80% 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 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention 2 times before this, most recently in September 2023 as 23V639000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 48 complaints with NHTSA, 35 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2020, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 24V358000 (electrical system), 22V899000 (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 June 20, 2025 as campaign 25V426000. 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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