1999 Kia Sportage defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1999 Kia Sportage. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FUEL TANK LEAKAGE
  Engineering Analysis EA06007 · opened May 9, 2006 · closed Nov 30, 2007

  A safety-related defect trend has not been identified at this time.review of the warranty data revealed elevated tank leakage experience in vehicles produced from june 1999 to october 2000.analysis of complaints and warranty claims identified multiple causes and origins of fuel tank assembly leakage.the majority of com…

• FUEL TANK LEAKAGE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE06002 · opened Jan 4, 2006 · closed May 9, 2006

  On january 4, 2006, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened a preliminary evaluation to investigate alleged fuel leakage from the steel fuel storage tank in certain model year 1999-2000 kia sportage vehicles.odi sent a letter to the manufacturer on january 25, 2006 requesting information about these and other …

• SEAT BELT BUCKLE FALSE LATCH/MALFUNCTION
  Engineering Analysis EA04007 · opened Feb 27, 2004 · closed Jul 26, 2004

  The manufacturer has initiated a safety related campaign to recall the subject vehicles for correction of the seat belt buckle defect.the corrective action is to replace the seat belts/buckles.this safety recall program has been assigned nhtsa campaign no. 04v305.

• SEAT BELT BUCKLE FALSE LATCH/MALFUNCTION
  Recall Query RQ03007 · opened Oct 14, 2003 · closed Feb 27, 2004 · led to recall 04V305000

  Information received and analyzed during this rq disclosed that my 1999 and 2000 kia sephia and sportage vehicles were equipped with modified versions of the same safety belt latch assembly as those recalled in campaign no. 02v-216.these latch assemblies were identified as type a97. Odi analyses indicate a continuing t…

• ENGINE STALLING POST-RECALL
  Recall Query RQ02013 · opened Oct 18, 2002 · closed Sep 2, 2003 · led to recall 99V325000

  Rq02-013 was opened to assess the scope and adequacy of recall 99v-325, which involved modifications to the engine fuel injection wire harness (harness).vehicles produced after the recall population have shown no signs of a defect trend.the majority of recall remedy failures identified were repaired within one day of t…

• WINDSHIELD WIPER
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02002 · opened Jan 9, 2002 · closed Aug 7, 2002
• TURN SIGHAL
  Engineering Analysis EA00018 · opened Jun 29, 2000 · closed Jul 29, 2002 · led to recall 02V207000

  There is no summary currently available

• TURN SIGNAL, TRAFFIC SAFETY HAZARD
  Preliminary Evaluation PE00004 · opened Jan 13, 2000 · closed Jun 29, 2000

  Allege that while driving, the trun signal switch failed.this failure increases the risk of a vehicle crash due to operator distraction and due to other vehicles being uninformed of the operator's intentions.