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SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:CONTROL UNIT/MODULE
An engine compartment fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.
2012 KIA RIO
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 73 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints73
Complaints citing a crash5
Complaints citing a fire12
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 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 23ENGINE
- 12AIR BAGS
- 7FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 6ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 6VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 4UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 3SEAT BELTS
- 3SERVICE BRAKES
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 KIA RIOs 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.