Kia Sedona. Published by Transport Canada as 2019103 on 1 March 2019. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the wiring for the Occupant Detection System (ODS) could break. This would cause the airbag system to not turn off the airbag when an infant or child is seated in the front passenger seat. This problem only affects vehicles with a manual front-passenger seat.
Safety Risk:
In a crash, …
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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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The European register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2019103
- Recall date
- 1 March 2019
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Sedona
- Model years
- 2015 to 2018
- Vehicle class
- Minivan
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 5,314
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the wiring for the Occupant Detection System (ODS) could break. This would cause the airbag system to not turn off the airbag when an infant or child is seated in the front passenger seat. This problem only affects vehicles with a manual front-passenger seat.Safety Risk:
In a crash, an airbag that deploys in front of an infant or child increases the risk of injury.Corrective Actions:
The company will notify owners by mail. Owners will be instructed to take their vehicle to a dealer to remove a wiring harness clip. This will prevent the wire from breaking. If the wiring is found damaged, the dealer will replace the front passenger seat cushion.
Note: If the wiring breaks, the SRS airbag warning light will come on and the "Passenger Airbag Off" indicator will not turn on.
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 2019103.
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.
- 2019143 · 18 March 2019 · Sportage, Optima, Sorento · Engine
- 2019153 · 21 March 2019 · Optima, Sportage, Sorento · Engine
- 2019101 · 28 February 2019 · Soul · Engine
- 2019098 · 27 February 2019 · Sportage, Optima, Sorento · Fuel System
- 2019099 · 27 February 2019 · Sportage · Engine
- 2019278 · 10 June 2019 · Telluride · Label
- 2019367 · 25 July 2019 · Optima · Brakes
- 2019416 · 20 August 2019 · Telluride · Seats And Restraints
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2019111 · 4 March 2019 · DH · Seats And Restraints
- 2019120 · 7 March 2019 · Terrain, Equinox · Seats And Restraints
- 2019128 · 11 March 2019 · Easymaxi · Seats And Restraints
- 2019136 · 14 March 2019 · Slingshot · Seats And Restraints
- 2019160 · 29 March 2019 · Cherokee · Seats And Restraints
- 2019202 · 25 April 2019 · F-Type · Seats And Restraints
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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 594 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2019.
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