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Model years to avoid

Kia Sportage

What it says about you

Opinion

You looked at the warranty, looked at the price, looked at the styling, and decided two out of three was fine. It has been fine.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

23 model years on record, 3,123 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2023 (check hybrid), 2017 (open), 2013 (noise), 2012 (seized). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • engines 2012, 2013, 2024 peak 11.2% of that year's complaints
  • position 2009, 2022 peak 8.8% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 27 complaints
  3. 2025 1 recall 49 complaints
  4. 2024 3 recalls 66 complaints
  5. 2023 check hybrid 295 complaints
  6. 2022 1 recall 45 complaints
  7. 2021 2 recalls 49 complaints
  8. 2020 2 recalls 159 complaints
  9. 2019 2 recalls 69 complaints
  10. 2018 3 recalls 161 complaints
  11. 2017 open 398 complaints
  12. 2016 2 recalls 130 complaints
  13. 2015 2 recalls 146 complaints
  14. 2014 3 recalls 122 complaints
  15. 2013 noise 380 complaints
  16. 2012 seized 392 complaints
  17. 2011 6 recalls 181 complaints
  18. 2010 2 recalls 20 complaints
  19. 2009 3 recalls 80 complaints
  20. 2008 3 recalls 98 complaints
  21. 2007 2 recalls 77 complaints
  22. 2006 1 recall 111 complaints
  23. 2005 3 recalls 68 complaints

What does a Kia Sportage say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.