2005 Kia Amanti
Complaints about this year name bag light far more often than the model's other years — 13% of them, about 33× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 83 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 25 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- accident — 19% of complaints, 10× usual
- acceleration — 17% of complaints, 8× usual
- what — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
What owners wrote
MY AIR BAG LIGHT CAME ON 4/19/2016 AND HAVE BEEN ON SINCE THEN. I ONLY HAD MY CAR ONE MONTH I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT NOR HAVE MY CAR EVERY BEEN IN AN IMPACT I HAD IT LOOK AT BY A MERCHANIC AND HE SAID THAT'S DANGEROUS AND CAN POP OUT AT ANY TIME SO I S…
JUST 2DAYS AGO MY CAR STARTED JERKING REAL BAD AND ALSO MY TRANSMISSION FELT LIKE IT WAS STALLING AND THE CAR WAS LOOSING ACCELERATION POWER.THEN AFTER A SHORT HESITATION THE VEHICLE,WHILE BACKING IN THE DRIVEWAY [VIN] AND WAS HARD TO STOP.TODAY I NOTICED A SM…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Amanti was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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