Kia Sorento, Kia Sorento Hybrid, Kia Sorento Phev, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Kia America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 January 2025. 74,469 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Sorento, 2025 Sorento Hybrid, and 2025 Sorento Plug-In Hybrid vehicles. A software error in the Body Domain Control Unit (BDC) may cause a loss of low beam headlights and taillights. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor …
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Kia's own number for this recall: SC331. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V006 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V006 cover?
- Kia Sorento, Kia Sorento Hybrid, Kia Sorento PHEV, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Sorento, 2025 Sorento Hybrid, and 2025 Sorento Plug-In Hybrid vehicles. A software error in the Body Domain Control Unit (BDC) may cause a loss of low beam headlights and taillights.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of headlights and taillights can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the BDC software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 21, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC331.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Kia calls this recall SC331, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A loss of headlights and taillights can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V006 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kia America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Body Control Module:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 January 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KIA SORENTO, KIA SORENTO HYBRID, KIA SORENTO PHEV |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Sorento, 2025 Sorento Hybrid, and 2025 Sorento Plug-In Hybrid vehicles. A software error in the Body Domain Control Unit (BDC) may cause a loss of low beam headlights and taillights. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
A loss of headlights and taillights can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the BDC software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 21, 2025. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC331.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to a3f93d3eccbe743bd6bfc9d25b10edc0…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Kia Sorento recalls: 23 US campaigns since 2016
- Kia Sorento Hybrid recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Kia Sorento PHEV recalls: 8 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V006, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v006/
The copy quoted above hashes to a3f93d3eccbe743bd6bfc9d25b10edc0…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 25V006 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
81d24ee8 - Consequence
85b7375c - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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