25V099000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:HARD PARTS INTERNAL/MECHANICAL
Engine damage can cause a vehicle stall or fire, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
2023 KIA SELTOS
2 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation, 78 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints78
Complaints citing a crash5
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 2 of 2
23V531000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:FLUID/LUBRICANT:PUMP
An electric oil pump assembly that overheats increases the risk of a vehicle fire.
What owners report most
- 17UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 15ENGINE
- 14ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 4POWER TRAIN
- 3VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 3FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
- 3SERVICE BRAKES
- 2FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2023 KIA SELTOSs 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.