Kia Optima 2014–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin PS392 · NHTSA communication 10092099 · issued Mar 27, 2015
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine
component
2014–2015
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Pitstop: intermittent no start in cold temperatures with check bsd system message on cluster - on some optima (qf) vehicles, a customer may experience an intermittent no start concern, on cold start-up and in cooler temperatures. This concern may also be accompanied by a complaint of the check bsd system message (a) appearing on the instrument cluster (for vehicles equipped with blind spot detection (bsd) system) along with a lack of park (p) indication in the cluster (b). This concern may be related to an internal connection/contact concern in the inhibitor switch (c) and will be difficult to
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.