2022 Kia Telluride
This year drew an ordinary 315 complaints for a Kia Telluride — the model's median is 209. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.8% of them mention screen, against 2.3% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Kia Telluride, which began in 2020. 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 | 315 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 209 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- screen — 9.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: screen, backup camera, infotainment, lcd screen.
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 Kia Telluride backup camera and screen has become unusable with random colors, screen dark spots, blacking out, and pixelation. This is becoming a widespread problem according to multiple message board posts for Tellurides. I cannot use the backup camera. M…
Infotainment screen is blank most of the time. Backup camera works intermittently. Dealer confirmed head unit failure and stated software updates cannot be performed. Quoted approximately $7,500 for full replacement. Issue has been occurring for over two years…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V577000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V344000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V509000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V626000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V214000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V407000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V430000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Telluride 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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