Kia Sorento 2014 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin PS291 · NHTSA communication 10109719 · issued Jan 28, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Structure
component
2014
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
PITSTOP: TAILGATE WILL NOT OPEN OR CLOSES AGAIN AFTER STARTING TO OPEN - A customer complaint of a Power Tailgate System (PTGS) intermittently inoperative for a period of time or a Power Tailgate which starts to open but then immediately re-closes may be due to the customer, inadvertently, disabling the PTGS by depressing the PTGS OFF button in the overhead console.
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.