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Kia EV9 2024–2025technical service bulletin

Bulletin TSB_BOD341 · NHTSA communication 11021136 · issued Jul 31, 2025

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Structure
component
2024–2025
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN: CONSOLE ARMREST LOWER COVER AND BUMPER REPLACEMENT - This bulletin provides information to replace the console armrest lower cover and bumpers on some 2024-2025MY EV9 (MV1) vehicles produced from July 27, 2023 through April 26, 2024. The affected vehicles may exhibit console armrest wobbling and/or rattling when closed. One or both bumpers can be missing, broken, and/or shifted out of place creating a gap between the console armrest and the console assembly which causes the console armrest to wobble and/or rattle while closed.

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.