2024 Kia EV6
This year drew an ordinary 71 complaints for a Kia EV6 — the model's median is 132. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.7% of them mention odometer, against 2.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 71 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 132 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 113 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- odometer — 12.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: odometer, evidence, wet, response.
- including — 8.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (5.6×).
- different — 7% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (3.7×).
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
There are alot of electrical malfunctions including unnecessary and without warning emergency breaking that has injured me ( I temporarily have a rental car to recover from a right thoracic sprain, left hip contusion, and a right anterior chest contusion- I ha…
I leased a 2024 Kia EV6 on 1/27/24. On 2/22/24, twenty-six days after leasing the vehicle and an odometer reading of 616 miles, while on Washington state highway 903 there was a pop sound, the car slowed, and stopped displaying a “Check electric vehicle system…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V200000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V867000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V431000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia EV6 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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