2023 Kia K5
This year drew an ordinary 104 complaints for a Kia K5 — the model's median is 49. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.6% of them mention today, against 1.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 104 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 49 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- today — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: today, drive car.
- department — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (4.7×). Owners wrote it as: department, service department, two weeks, transition.
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
My engine line keeps returning regardless of the multiple visits to the service department in attempt to fix recall complications at BONIFACE-HIERS KIA. Today will be the fourth visit for fuel tank and ECM recall related malfunctions.
Transmission is itself in neutral while driving. Resulting in irratic RPMs, hesitating acceleration and rough transition to gears. Took care into dealership service department. They seemed that I would need a transmission replacement. Kia approved the request.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V760000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V149000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V493000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V794000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia K5 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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