2005 Kia Sedona
This year drew an ordinary 185 complaints for a Kia Sedona — the model's median is 65. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.8% of them mention brakes, against 6.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 185 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 65 |
| Involving a crash | 20 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 36.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.2% across the model's other years (6×).
- rotors — 30.3% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the model's other years (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: rotors, pads, brakes rotors, warped.
- brake — 25.9% of this year's complaints, against 8.7% across the model's other years (3×).
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
: THE CONTACT STATED THE ROTORS WERE WARPED BECAUSE THE REAR BRAKES WERE NOT ADJUSTED CORRECTLY CAUSING THE ROTORS AND BRAKE PADS TO BE DEFECTIVE. THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN LOOKED AT FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES AND THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE. THE VEHICLE H…
FRONT BRAKES AND ROTORS ON THE 2005 KIA SEDONA. THE ROTORS ARE OVERHEATING WITH NORMAL DRIVING AND HAD TO BE RESURFACED AT 15000 MILES. THE BRAKE PADS HAD TO BE REPLACED AT 23000. THE ROTOR HAD TO BE REPLACED AT 34000. *AK KIA MANAGER TOLD ME THERE IS A PROBLE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V329000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 05V232000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Sedona 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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