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Complaints by Make

Kia Complaints

17,276 complaints across 100 models. 731 crash reports.

Owners have filed 17,276 complaints with NHTSA against 15 Kia models in our index, covering model years 2015 to 2025. 731 of those reports describe a crash.

The problem areas owners report most often across Kia vehicles are engine (8,666), other (2,020) and electrical (1,381). A high count on a widely sold model is not by itself evidence of a defect — complaints scale with how many cars are on the road, and NHTSA publishes them unverified, as filed.

The most-reported single model year here is the 2016 Kia Sorento, with 1,240 complaints, 29 of them citing a crash. Open any model year below for the individual reports and the components involved.

Complaints by Model

15 models · 100 years

Carnival

2022–2025

362 complaints

Ev6

2022–2025

524 complaints

Ev9

2024–2025

215 complaints

Forte

2015–2024

1,080 complaints

K5

2021–2025

450 complaints

Niro

2021–2025

100 complaints

Optima

2015–2020

2,572 complaints

Rio

2015–2023

271 complaints

Sedona

2015–2021

666 complaints

Seltos

2021–2025

512 complaints

Sorento

2015–2025

3,965 complaints

Soul

2015–2025

3,075 complaints

Sportage

2015–2025

1,446 complaints

Stinger

2018–2023

162 complaints

Telluride

2020–2025

1,876 complaints