22V051000
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.
2015 KIA SPORTAGE
2 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 195 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints195
Complaints citing a crash9
Complaints citing a fire21
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
18V907000
ENGINE
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.
What owners report most
- 84ENGINE
- 27SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 25UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 5AIR BAGS
- 5POWER TRAIN
- 5VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 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.