Kia Forte 2016–2017 — technical service bulletin

Bulletin TSBCHA100 · NHTSA communication 10167234 · issued Oct 8, 2019

Technical service bulletin

communication type

Parking Brake

component

2016–2017

model years

vehicle entries

Official summary

TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN (TSBCHA100): SERVICE ACTION: AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRAKE (AEB) LOGIC IMPROVEMENT (SA400) - This bulletin provides the procedure to improve the logic of the Autonomous Emergency Brake (AEB) control unit on some 2016-2017MY Optima (JFa), and 2017MY Sorento (UMa), Forte (YDm), and Sedona (YP) vehicles, which may experience unexpected AEB activation in certain circumstances.

Vehicles covered

2017 Kia Forte
2016 Kia Optima
2017 Kia Optima
2017 Kia Sedona
2017 Kia Sorento

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.