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Hyundai Kona 2018technical service bulletin

Bulletin 5NP-X5N8S-05 · NHTSA communication 10138246 · issued Apr 30, 2018

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Forward Collision Avoidance
component
2018
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some Kona (OS) vehicles may intermittently experience the FCA Malfunction Indicator Light ON with a message ?Check Forward Collision Avoidance Assist System? displayed on the instrument cluster. When the FCA Malfunction Indicator Light is ON, the FCA function becomes inoperative. This bulletin provides the service procedure to update the FCA system software to correct the intermittent faulty FCA Malfunction Indicator Light ON.

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.