23V534000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:CLUTCHES/BANDS:ACTUATORS/SOLENOIDS
A fire increases the risk of injury.
2018 KIA NIRO
3 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation, 80 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints80
Complaints citing a crash6
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
22V836000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
Overheated rear seats increase the risk of a fire.
18V666000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
The increased electrical resistance can overheat the rear seat which is above the PRA, increasing the risk of a fire.
What owners report most
- 17POWER TRAIN
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 16ENGINE
- 10UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 6SERVICE BRAKES
- 4VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 3STRUCTURE:BODY
- 2FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2018 KIA NIROs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.