Kia Spectra. Published by Transport Canada as 2005288 on 5 October 2005. System: Airbag.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with an advanced airbag feature, the Occupant Classification System (OCS) installed in the right front seat of the vehicle may misclassify a child restraint seat as an adult. This may occur if the child seat is installed after an adult has been seated in the right front seat and there has …
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Kia SPECTRA in the other registers
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2005288
- Recall date
- 5 October 2005
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Spectra
- Model years
- 2005 to 2006
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9,420
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with an advanced airbag feature, the Occupant Classification System (OCS) installed in the right front seat of the vehicle may misclassify a child restraint seat as an adult. This may occur if the child seat is installed after an adult has been seated in the right front seat and there has not been a key ON - key OFF cycle with the right front seat empty prior to installation of the child restraint. The possibility of misclassification of a child restraint as an adult may allow the right front airbag or side impact airbag to deploy in a crash and could result in injury to the right front occupant. Correction: Dealers will reprogram the vehicles OCS Electronic Control Unit (ECU).
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Kia elsewhere in this register
Kia is named on 197 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2005316 · 18 October 2005 · Sedona · Electrical
- 2005244 · 22 August 2005 · Sorento · Fuel System
- 2005226 · 8 August 2005 · Sportage · Brakes
- 2005228 · 8 August 2005 · Sedona · Engine
- 2005404 · 28 December 2005 · Rio · Seats And Restraints
- 2005165 · 27 May 2005 · Sedona · Other
- 2005159 · 20 May 2005 · Spectra · Steering
- 2005160 · 20 May 2005 · Sportage · Fuel System
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2005348 · 7 November 2005 · Accord · Airbag
- 2005358 · 14 November 2005 · A8 · Airbag
- 2005229 · 9 August 2005 · Odyssey · Airbag
- 2005045 · 25 February 2005 · 612 Scaglietti · Airbag
- 2005046 · 25 February 2005 · Quattroporte · Airbag
- 2005015 · 21 January 2005 · CTS, SRX · Airbag
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