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Kia Sportage 2018technical service bulletin

Bulletin VSCSC161OWNER · NHTSA communication 10128635 · issued Feb 2, 2018

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2018
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

SC161 - OWNER LETTER - Owner Notification Letter advising of the Voluntary Service Campaign to upgrade the ECM software to improve the Instrument Cluster Logic.

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.