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.
2012 KIA SPORTAGE
5 safety recall campaigns, 4 defect investigations (1 open), 454 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations41 open
Owner complaints454
Complaints citing a crash10
Complaints citing a fire25
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.
19V101000
ENGINE
A damaged engine can increase the risk of a fire or it can cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
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.
What owners report most
- 328ENGINE
- 23UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 23ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 21POWER TRAIN
- 11SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 6STEERING
- 6FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 4AIR BAGS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 KIA SPORTAGEs 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.