Kia Forte 2019–2020 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SC199_OWNR_BD · NHTSA communication 10185018 · issued Dec 3, 2020
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2019–2020
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
SC199 - Owner Letter - Forte: Notification to Forte vehicle owners advising them of a Voluntary Emissions Service Campaign to improve the Transmission Control Module (TCM) logic and, if necessary, replace the Intelligent Variable Transmission (IVT) on some 2019-2020 Forte vehicles.
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.