Owner-reported complaints naming the other system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports whose component NHTSA recorded as unknown, or that do not map to one of the categories above. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1998 Kia Sportage submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
THE VEHICLE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT IS CONSTANTLY ON, VEHICLE HAS BEEN TO DEALER SEVERAL OCCASIONS, TO HAVE VARIOUS PARTS REPAIRED AND REPLACED, VEHICLE BEGAN SMOKING FROM THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT, DEALER HAS TRIED ALL TYPES OF REMEDIES BUT PROBLEM STILL EXISTS.*JB
WHEEL ASSEMBLY BECOMES "LOOSE" AND REQUIRES ROUTINE TIGHTENING BY DEALER. LOOSE WHEEL CAUSES SAFETY HAZARD & POTENTIAL FOR LOSS OF CONTROL AS WELL AS NEEDLESS DAMAGE TO REMAINING HUB ASSEMBLY AND DRIVE TRAIN COMPONENTS TOTALING AS MUCH AS $3,500 PER INCIDENT TO REPAIR.*AK
SPARE TIRE RELEASE WAS FREEZEN UNABLE TO OPEN- SHOP THAWWED IT OUT AND LUBRICATED IT. *AK
HUBS RECALL BY MANUFACTURE- DONE. *AK
SPARE TIRE RELEASE CABLE WOULD NOT WORK TO RELEASE TIRE TO GET INTO BACK OF VEHICLE. *AK
SPARE TIRE ASSEMBLY IS RUSTING - REPAINTED- HOWEVER IT IS RUSTING AGAIN ON 4/13/01. *AK
WHILE ACCELERATING IN REVERSE VEHICLE CUTS OFF. VEHICLE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO THE DEALERSHIP 3 TIMES FOR THIS PROBLEM. FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM WAS CHANGED TWICE. ALSO, THE MOULDING AROUND THE SPARKS PLUGS BROKE LOOSE, AND IT WAS REPLACED. CONSUMER IS STILL EXPERIENCING STALLING PROBLEMS. SHIELD OVER THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER REPLACED. THE REAR LATCH FOR THE SPARE CABLE RUSTED AND CAME OUT UPON PULLING, THE MOUNTING FOR THE REAR WHEEL HAS RELEASED ITSELF WHILE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION. *AK
THE HUBS WERE CRACKED AND WHEEL BEARING WAS GONE, CAUSING A TOTAL LOSS OF BRAKES WHICH RESULTED IN AN ACCIDENT. KIA HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP. *AK *ML
VEHICLE IS SOLD AS SUTOMATIC FOUR WHEEL DRIVE, ENCOURAGING DRIVERS TO DRIVE IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS. WHEN I REALIZED THAT INDEED I DID NOT HAVE AUTOMATICE FOUR WHEEL, (RESULTING FROM GOING OFF THE ROAD AND GETTING STUCK IN SNOW BANK) THE DEALER STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER KNOWS THAT THIS PROBLEM EXISTS WITH THIS VEHICLE. I WAS GIVEN MANUAL HUBS AS A "FIX". MY PROBLEM IS THAT 1) THIS IS NOT WHAT I BOUGHT. 2) THE SAFETY IMPLICATIONS OF THE MANUFACTURER NOT NOTIFYING OWNERS OF THE PROBLEM. 3) SAFETY ISSUES WITH HAVING TO DISMOUNT VEHICLE IN BAD WEATHER TO CHANGE HUBS.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
Categories with enough reports to have a page of their own
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