23V652000
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.
2013 KIA SORENTO
5 safety recall campaigns, 10 defect investigations (1 open), 1,295 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations101 open
Owner complaints1,295
Complaints citing a crash37
Complaints citing a fire71
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 5 of 5
20V750000
ENGINE
An engine compartment fire increases the risk of injury.
18V907000
ENGINE
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.
17V224000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
Bearing wear may result in the engine seizing, increasing the risk of a crash.
15V626000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
Without requiring the brake to be pressed, the vehicle may be unintentionally shifted out of Park, allowing it to roll, which may result in a crash.
What owners report most
- 495ENGINE
- 112ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 89UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 83STRUCTURE:BODY
- 69POWER TRAIN
- 65EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 60AIR BAGS
- 53SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2013 KIA SORENTOs 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.