Recall · 25V493000
Kia America recalled the KIA K5 over structure
100,063
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
July 28, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2023-2025 K5 vehicles. The left and right rear window trim pieces may loosen and detach.
- What it can cause
- Detached trim pieces can create a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the C-pillar trim assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 19, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC346.
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 100,063 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 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 structure 7 times before this, most recently in June 2024 as 24V400000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 182 complaints with NHTSA, 74 of them before this campaign was filed. 26 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 October 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V794000 (fuel system, gasoline), 25V351000 (exterior lighting), 23V149000 (air bags), 22V760000 (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 July 28, 2025 as campaign 25V493000. 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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