Recall · 25V874000
Kia America recalled 2 models over trailer hitches
5,046
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
December 17, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
TRAILER HITCHES
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Sportage Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV) and 2024-2025 Sportage vehicles equipped with a 4.2" screen and a Genuine Kia tow hitch harness accessory. Due to a software error, the instrument panel screen may fail. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 101, "Controls and Displays."
- What it can cause
- An instrument panel screen that fails to display critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the tow hitch harness control module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 13, 2026. Owners may contact Kia Customer Service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC359. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 31, 2025.
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 5,046 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 74% 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 trailer hitches 4 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V179000. 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 150 complaints with NHTSA, 87 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2023, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 24V422000 (steering), 24V025000 (structure), 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 December 17, 2025 as campaign 25V874000. 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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