Kia Sportage 2005 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 048 · NHTSA communication 10015250 · issued May 1, 2005
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Fuel System, Gasoline
component
2005
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Safety recall campaign. Fuel may leak past an o-ring into the internal vapor chamber located in the fuel tank causing the engine to stall when coming to a stop; hard to fill gas tank; and fuel leaking from the evaporative air filter inlet. *tt
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.