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Complaints by Make

Kia Complaints

17,960 complaints across 102 models. 749 crash reports.

Owners have filed 17,960 complaints with NHTSA against 15 Kia models in our index, covering model years 2015 to 2025. 749 of those reports describe a crash.

The problem areas owners report most often across Kia vehicles are engine (9,037), other (2,104) and electrical (1,379). 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 1,254 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 · 102 years

Carnival

2022–2025

388 complaints

Ev6

2022–2025

545 complaints

Ev9

2024–2025

222 complaints

Forte

2015–2024

1,120 complaints

K5

2021–2025

490 complaints

Niro

2021–2025

111 complaints

Optima

2015–2020

2,619 complaints

Rio

2015–2023

275 complaints

Sedona

2015–2021

687 complaints

Seltos

2021–2025

555 complaints

Sorento

2015–2025

4,094 complaints

Soul

2015–2025

3,171 complaints

Sportage

2015–2025

1,496 complaints

Stinger

2018–2023

169 complaints

Telluride

2020–2025

2,018 complaints