Kia Telluride 2020 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin TSB_ENG228 · NHTSA communication 10187821 · issued Feb 1, 2021
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
2020
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN: 3.8L GDI MISFIRE DTC JUDGMENT LOGIC IMPROVEMENT - This bulletin provides the procedure to improve the logic of the Engine Control Module (ECM) on some 2020MY Telluride (ON) vehicles with 3.8 GDI ULEV engines, produced from January 9, 2019 through May 19, 2020, which may exhibit a cold start misfire with MIL ON for the misfire related DTC(s) listed below.
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.