Kia Sportage 2011–2012 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin TSB-TRA048 · NHTSA communication 10116822 · issued Sep 30, 2013
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2011–2012
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
TSB: COMBINED TSB/SERVICE ACTION: SHIFT KNOB TRIM RING REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE (SA147) - This bulletin provides the procedure to replace the shift knob trim ring on some Sportage (SL) vehicles, produced from May 6, 2010 to June 8, 2011 (2011MY) and from May 17, 2011 to March 23, 2012 (2012MY), which may exhibit a difficult to depress A/T shift knob button.
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.