Kia Sedona. Published by Transport Canada as 2005316 on 18 October 2005. System: Electrical.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the wiring under the front seats of vehicles equipped with power seats could be misrouted, allowing the wire to be pinched by metal seat components. As a result, electrical resistance will trip a circuit breaker diode in the fuse junction box. After the diode cools down, it will reset and recycle …
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Kia SEDONA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Kia SEDONA is named on 12 American notices, 9 British and 1 European. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2005316
- Recall date
- 18 October 2005
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Sedona
- Model years
- 2002 to 2004
- Vehicle class
- Minivan
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9,220
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the wiring under the front seats of vehicles equipped with power seats could be misrouted, allowing the wire to be pinched by metal seat components. As a result, electrical resistance will trip a circuit breaker diode in the fuse junction box. After the diode cools down, it will reset and recycle through this process repeatedly. It may be possible for the diode to continue to build up heat instead of cooling down, which may result in a fire in another component in the junction box area. Correction: Dealers will inspect to confirm the integrity of the power seat wiring. In addition, the dealer will install corrugated tubing around the underseat wires to eliminate the possibility of wire pinching.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2005316.
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.
- 2005288 · 5 October 2005 · Spectra · Airbag
- 2005244 · 22 August 2005 · Sorento · Fuel System
- 2005404 · 28 December 2005 · Rio · Seats And Restraints
- 2005226 · 8 August 2005 · Sportage · Brakes
- 2005228 · 8 August 2005 · Sedona · Engine
- 2005165 · 27 May 2005 · Sedona · Other
- 2005159 · 20 May 2005 · Spectra · Steering
- 2005160 · 20 May 2005 · Sportage · Fuel System
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2005302 · 11 October 2005 · All American Non-School Bus, All American School Bus, TC/2000 School Bus · Electrical
- 2005303 · 11 October 2005 · Escapade Motorhome, Greyhawk Motorhome · Electrical
- 2005331 · 28 October 2005 · Legend 138, Classic, Legend 158 · Electrical
- 2005021 · 26 November 2005 · Optra, Epica · Electrical
- 2005400 · 21 December 2005 · Boulevard M50 (vz800), Boulevard C50 (vl800) · Electrical
- 2005401 · 21 December 2005 · Vt750c, Vt750ca6 · Electrical
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Kia: 197 in the register, and 404 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2005.
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