Kia Sportage. Published by Transport Canada as 2025708 on 19 December 2025. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the tow hitch harness control module software could cause the instrument cluster to reboot while driving. If this happens, you may not be able to see certain information about the vehicle, including the speedometer, warnings, and tell-tales.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles …
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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
- 2025708
- Recall date
- 19 December 2025
- Make
- Kia
- Models
- Sportage
- Model years
- 2023 to 2025
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 3,254
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the tow hitch harness control module software could cause the instrument cluster to reboot while driving. If this happens, you may not be able to see certain information about the vehicle, including the speedometer, warnings, and tell-tales.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles equipped with a 4.2-in screen and a Genuine Kia tow hitch harness.Safety Risk:
Warnings, tell-tales and gauges that don't display could increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Kia will notify owners by mail and advise you to take your vehicle to a dealership to inspect and, if necessary, replace the tow hitch harness control module.
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 2025708.
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.
- 2025638 · 18 November 2025 · K5 · Fuel System
- 2025516 · 26 September 2025 · Sorento · Heater And Defroster
- 2025400 · 30 July 2025 · Telluride · Structure
- 2025398 · 30 July 2025 · K5 · Structure
- 2025345 · 20 June 2025 · Niro · Visual System
- 2025083 · 18 February 2025 · Seltos, Forte, Soul · Engine
- 2025021 · 17 January 2025 · Niro · Airbag
- 2025011 · 14 January 2025 · Sorento · Lights And Instruments
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2025711 · 19 December 2025 · Xe40, Xe35, Xe60 · Lights And Instruments
- 2025703 · 18 December 2025 · Mustang · Lights And Instruments
- 2025704 · 18 December 2025 · Mustang Mach-E · Lights And Instruments
- 2025673 · 9 December 2025 · Giulia · Lights And Instruments
- 2025672 · 5 December 2025 · C · Lights And Instruments
- 2025666 · 1 December 2025 · Navigator · Lights And Instruments
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Kia Sportage, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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 656 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2025.
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