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Kia Sedona

Every Kia Sedona model year on file, 2015 to 2021. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years68464 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years72015 to 2021

Recall campaigns7Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins558Summed across model years

By model year

The 2016 model year drew the most complaints, 296, 43% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Engine and cooling leads the Kia Sedona complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Engine and cooling

304

Electrical system

126

Structure

Lighting

Airbags

Powertrain

Brakes

Fuel system

Seats

Steering

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Kia Sedona model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Kia Sedona by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2021	Minivan	9	22.2	26	0	0	47
2020	Minivan	20	0.0	69	1	0	57
2019	Minivan	38	13.2	84	2	0	58
2018	Minivan	48	10.4	100	3	0	55
2017	Minivan	134	8.2	100	4	0	83
2016	Minivan	296	9.5	2,277	4	1	112
2015	Minivan	139	9.4	172	3	0	146

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Kia Sedona

22V-612 Aug 10, 2022
Vehicles may have been manufactured with faulty automatic transmission shift lever assembly components, preventing the shift lever from locking,…
Powertrain · 28k vehicles
22V-031 Jan 25, 2022
Air Bag Control Unit (ACU) cover may contact a memory chip on the printed circuit board and damage the electrical circuit
Airbags · 411k vehicles
21V-725 Sep 17, 2021
Smart Junction Box (SJB) software logic may not properly interpret the signals received from the multifunction switch, which could cause the turn…
Electrical system · 89k vehicles
20V-399 Jul 8, 2020
Battery positive (B+) terminal nut on the alternator may not have been tightened properly during assembly, possibly causing it to loosen over time
Electrical system · 5,385 vehicles
19V-207 Mar 18, 2019
Seat belt buckle for the second-row middle seat may have been improperly installed on the wrong side of the seat, preventing the proper use of the…
Seat belts · 197 vehicles
19V-109 Feb 19, 2019
Over time, the Occupant Detection System (ODS) wiring harness located underneath the front passenger seat may break from the seat being occupied
Electrical system · 94k vehicles
18V-338 May 23, 2018
PSD may not auto-reverse when its closing is obstructed
Electrical system · 106k vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.