Kia Sportage. Published by Transport Canada as 2022500 on 7 September 2022. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, a bracket for the folding rear seats can damage the wiring for the rear seat heater. If this happens, the wiring could short circuit.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles equipped with fold-and-dive rear seats with the seat heater option.
Safety Risk:
A short circuit could …
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Kia SPORTAGE in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Kia SPORTAGE is named on 17 American notices, 17 British, 10 European and 9 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2022500
- Recall date
- 7 September 2022
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Sportage
- Model years
- 2023
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 1,858
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, a bracket for the folding rear seats can damage the wiring for the rear seat heater. If this happens, the wiring could short circuit.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles equipped with fold-and-dive rear seats with the seat heater option.Safety Risk:
A short circuit could create a fire risk, even while the vehicle is parked and turned off.Corrective Action:
Kia will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealership to reinforce the rear seat heater wire harness. Kia advises that you may continue to drive your vehicle, but that you should park it outside and away from structures until the recall repairs are completed.
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 2022500.
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.
- 2022531 · 20 September 2022 · Sorento · Accessories
- 2022468 · 16 August 2022 · Telluride · Accessories
- 2022453 · 10 August 2022 · Sedona, Sorento · Powertrain
- 2022580 · 12 October 2022 · Sorento, K5 · Powertrain
- 2022607 · 25 October 2022 · Sportage · Electrical
- 2022379 · 19 July 2022 · Telluride · Tires
- 2022356 · 6 July 2022 · Telluride · Lights And Instruments
- 2022357 · 6 July 2022 · Telluride · Lights And Instruments
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.
- 2022510 · 9 September 2022 · C Class · Electrical
- 2022497 · 2 September 2022 · Aspen, Kodiak, Coleman · Electrical
- 2022486 · 30 August 2022 · Expedition, Navigator · Electrical
- 2022605 · 21 October 2022 · Ryker · Electrical
- 2022607 · 25 October 2022 · Sportage · Electrical
- 2022609 · 25 October 2022 · Hauler, Express, Liberty · 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 637 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2022.
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