Kia Carnival, Kia Carnival Hybrid, Kia Ev9, Kia K4, Kia K5, Kia Sorento, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Kia America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 27 January 2026. 42,677 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2025 Kia K4, 2025-2026 Sorento, Sorento Hybrid, Sorento Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), 2026 Sportage, Sportage Hybrid, Sportage PHEV, K5, EV9, Carnival, and Carnival Hybrid vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail. As such, these vehicles …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
The maker's own number for this recall: SC361. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V046 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 26V046 cover?
- Kia Carnival, Kia Carnival Hybrid, Kia Ev9, Kia K4, Kia K5, Kia Sorento, Kia Sorento Hybrid, Kia Sorento PHEV, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2025 Kia K4, 2025-2026 Sorento, Sorento Hybrid, Sorento Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), 2026 Sportage, Sportage Hybrid, Sportage PHEV, K5, EV9, Carnival, and Carnival Hybrid vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer, tire pressure, or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. The instrument panel display software will be updated over-the-air (OTA) or by a dealer, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 26, 2026. Owners may contact Kia Customer Service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC361.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall SC361, 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: “An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer, tire pressure, or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V046 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kia America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System: Instrument Cluster/Panel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | KIA CARNIVAL, KIA CARNIVAL HYBRID, KIA EV9, KIA K4, KIA K5, KIA SORENTO, KIA SORENTO HYBRID, KIA SORENTO PHEV, KIA SPORTAGE, KIA SPORTAGE HYBRID, KIA SPORTAGE PHEV |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2025 Kia K4, 2025-2026 Sorento, Sorento Hybrid, Sorento Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), 2026 Sportage, Sportage Hybrid, Sportage PHEV, K5, EV9, Carnival, and Carnival Hybrid vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 101, "Controls and Displays" and 138, "Tire Pressure Monitoring System."
The consequence
An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer, tire pressure, or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
The instrument panel display software will be updated over-the-air (OTA) or by a dealer, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed March 26, 2026. Owners may contact Kia Customer Service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC361. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 9, 2026.
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 410cf13dc30fa9eace29d3ecd050491f…, 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 Carnival recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Kia Ev9 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Kia K4 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Kia K5 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Kia Sorento recalls: 23 US campaigns since 2016
- Kia Sorento Hybrid recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Kia Sorento PHEV recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Kia Sportage recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Kia Sportage PHEV recalls: 3 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 26V046, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v046/
The copy quoted above hashes to 410cf13dc30fa9eace29d3ecd050491f…. 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.
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 26V046 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
98161882 - Consequence
42b5bce8 - 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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