2022 Kia Carnival
This year drew an ordinary 133 complaints for a Kia Carnival — the model's median is 49. What they were about is the unusual part: 39.1% of them mention door, against 10.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 133 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 49 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- door — 39.1% of this year's complaints, against 10.6% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- sliding — 35.3% of this year's complaints, against 12.1% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- body — 11.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (5×). Owners wrote it as: body, tboned, ran stop, sign high.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
I was tboned on 3/10/2022 at high speed in the back driver's side 1/3 of the car by another who ran stop sign at high speed (I am guessing 50 or 60 mph). I have some amnesia about the impact now....but with large hematoma on left side of my head & concussion,…
The powered sliding door sensor is inadequate. My son pressed the door closed button and I had to push the door off of my body as it started to crush me.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V908000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 21V277000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V179000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 23V236000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V025000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V232000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Carnival 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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