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2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.
Certain 2017-2021 Sportage and 2017-2019 Cadenza vehicles have a defective hydraulic control unit that may short-circuit and ignite an engine compartment fire. Owners should park outside until repairs are completed.
Kia is recalling 2017 Cadenza vehicles because a kinked brake vacuum hose may reduce braking performance, increasing crash risk.
Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.
Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.
Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.
282 manufacturer service bulletins across 7 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.
This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.
Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.