2024 Kia Sportage
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Kia Sportage — the model's median is 111. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.6% of them mention manufacturing, against 0% across the model's other years.
Generation 4 of the Kia Sportage, which began in 2023. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 111 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- manufacturing — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (37.9×). Owners wrote it as: manufacturing, manufacturing defect.
- collision — 13.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: collision, forward, forward collision, pee.
- turned — 15.2% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the model's other years (3.5×).
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
while driving at undisclosed speeds, or while the vehicle was parked, the engine intermittently hesitated and the vehicle almost shut off. The contact stated that the START/STOP button was depressed to shut off the vehicle; however, the button became inoperabl…
The sunroof exploded all of the sudden. I was driving on the I-675 highway toward Wright-Patt Air Force Base and the sunroof exploded, barely maintained vehicle control. The shattered glass hit my head and my child legs. Some glass sand enter my eye. I manage…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V025000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V422000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V874000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Sportage 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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