Kia Optima 2016 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin TSB-SC-131 · NHTSA communication 10079921 · issued Apr 21, 2016
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2016
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
"voluntary safety recall campaign: driver s frontal airbag module replacement (sc131) - this bulletin provides the procedure to replace the driver s frontal airbag module of seventeen (17) 2016 my optima vehicles, produced from november 10, 2015 through february 12, 2016. A secondary chemical enhancer required for the proper deployment of second-stage frontal airbag was not loaded during the airbag inflator build at the supplier. As a result, the second stage of the driver s frontal airbag will not deploy if the vehicle is involved in a crash that triggers the second-stage deployment of the dr
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.