Kia Optima. Published by Transport Canada as 2016514 on 18 October 2016. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with a 2.4L engine, the passenger side axle shaft could fail. This could result in a loss of vehicle propulsion which could increase the risk of a crash. This could also allow the vehicle to roll away if parked on a sufficient slope, despite the transmission shift lever being set in the …
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Kia OPTIMA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Kia OPTIMA is named on 17 American notices, 4 British, 7 European and 2 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
- DVSA recall R/2018/123: Kia Optima PHEV (High voltage battery system may malfunction and cause a sudden loss...)
- DVSA recall R/2019/259: Kia Sportswagon and Optima Saloon (The forward collision avoidance assist may fail to identify station...)
- DVSA recall R/2023/255: Kia Ceed, Stonic, Sportage and 1 more (The mesh filter inside the tandem pump may block causing insufficie...)
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2016514
- Recall date
- 18 October 2016
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Optima
- Model years
- 2016
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 575
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with a 2.4L engine, the passenger side axle shaft could fail. This could result in a loss of vehicle propulsion which could increase the risk of a crash. This could also allow the vehicle to roll away if parked on a sufficient slope, despite the transmission shift lever being set in the PARK position. Both issues could cause injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will replace the right front axle shaft assembly.
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 2016514.
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.
- 2016540 · 1 November 2016 · Sorento · Seats And Restraints
- 2016562 · 14 November 2016 · Sportage · Electrical
- 2016346 · 5 July 2016 · Sorento · Structure
- 2016273 · 2 June 2016 · Sedona · Suspension
- 2016274 · 2 June 2016 · Sedona · Structure
- 2016221 · 12 May 2016 · Forte · Seats And Restraints
- 2016166 · 18 April 2016 · K900 · Lights And Instruments
- 2016120 · 17 March 2016 · Sorento · Structure
The same system: Powertrain
823 notices in this register name Powertrain. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2016495 · 11 October 2016 · Chu, Mru, Gu · Powertrain
- 2016537 · 31 October 2016 · Wr250r · Powertrain
- 2016543 · 3 November 2016 · Essex Class A Motorhome, London Aire Class A Motorhome, Dutch Star Class A Motorhome · Powertrain
- 2016545 · 4 November 2016 · NPR, Npr-Hd · Powertrain
- 2016472 · 26 September 2016 · Xdiavel · Powertrain
- 2016574 · 17 November 2016 · 600 RMK, 800 RMK, 800 Switchback · Powertrain
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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 644 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2016.
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