{
  "owners": null,
  "title": "DVSA recall R/2023/015: Kia Sportage SLE (An electrical circuit within the Hydraulic Electronic Control…)",
  "url": "https://carsmultiverse.com/uk-recall/r-2023-015/",
  "summary": "Kia Sportage SLE: An electrical circuit within the Hydraulic Electronic Control Unit (HECU) may experience a short circuit condition that results in excessive",
  "excerpt": "KIA SPORTAGE SLe. Published by the DVSA as R/2023/015 on 3 February 2023. Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at the DVSA , or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on. CarsMultiverse / UK recalls A recall published by DVSA, the British vehicle safety authority, with every version of its wording that this site has read. Unchanged since first read. R/2023/015 3 February 2023 Kia (listed as KIA) 220S39 46,181 Sportage SLE 46,181 15 May 2013 5 December 2015 Nothing yet. The wording has been the same on every read since 4 September 2026. The file is read again every day; if DVSA rewrites the defect, remedy or concern, the old and new text will appear here with both dates. Safety Gate alert A12/00020/23 from Poland, 13/01/2023 Matched through the manufacturer's own reference (220S39), which the registers share. See the same recall, Britain and America . Check this recall on the DVSA service Read from DVSA's bulk recalls file (RecallsFile.csv, 7 MB) on 17 September 2026; this recall first read on 4 September 2026, read 15 times since. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: DVSA, Check vehicle recalls . CarsMultiverse is an independent site, not an authority: the official notice is the one on the DVSA service. Kia is named on 87 notices in the copy of the DVSA’s register",
  "register": {
    "authority": "DVSA",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "index": "https://carsmultiverse.com/uk-recalls/"
  },
  "datePublished": "2023-02-03T09:00:00+00:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-05T12:00:00+00:00",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "CarsMultiverse, \"DVSA recall R/2023/015: Kia Sportage SLE (An electrical circuit within the Hydraulic Electronic Control…)\", https://carsmultiverse.com/uk-recall/r-2023-015/, licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "note": "CarsMultiverse is an independent record, not a safety authority. To act on a recall, use the official register."
}