Kia Cerato, Forte, Optima, Sorento, Sportage

The risk

Due to a manufacturing error, the engine might overheat due to fuel or oil leaks and subsequently break down. This may endanger the following traffic and can cause a fire. The product does not comply with the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Product: Passenger car, Individual type approval operating permits.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Manufacturer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: Unknown

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Kia Forte
• Kia Optima
• Kia Sorento
• Kia Sportage

Other fire, injuries alerts in 2023

17 of the 395 motor vehicle alerts published in 2023 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2023

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2023

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Kia Forte

More Kia alerts

81 EU Safety Gate alerts for Kia since 2007; the most were issued in 2025 (23).

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