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Kia recall 17V608: 2014-2016 Soul and Soul EV

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What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the pinion gear separates, steering will be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.”

342,381vehicles potentially
affected
2models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 29 September 2017owners told 16 November 2017today
The defect reached the regulator on 29 September 2017. Owners were written to 48 days later, on 16 November 2017. The median across the 14,851 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign took longer than most.
Campaign17V608
Filed byKia Motors America
System at faultSteering
Reported to NHTSA29 September 2017
Model years2014-2016
Vehicles namedKIA SOUL, KIA SOUL EV

What the notice says today

The consequence

If the pinion gear separates, steering will be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Kia will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and secure the pinion plug or replace the steering gear assembly, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began November 16, 2017. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC155. Note: This recall supersedes campaigns 14V-332 and 15V-736. Vehicles previously remedied under those numbers are being recalled again under this campaign.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

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The fingerprint of this notice

We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 17V608 on 23 August 2026, they were:

We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.

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