Kia Forte 2019 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin TSBENG204 · NHTSA communication 10159247 · issued Apr 5, 2019
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
2019
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
TSB: SERVICE ACTION: ECU LOGIC IMPROVEMENT FOR P030X, P219X (SA378) - This bulletin provides the procedure to improve the logic of the Engine Control Unit (ECU) on some 2019MY Forte (BDm) vehicles, equipped with a NU 2.0MPI Atkinson engine and produced from July 9, 2018 through March 11, 2019, which may experience a malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) ON with DTC P030X and/or P219X.
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.