2025 Kia Telluride
This year drew an ordinary 93 complaints for a Kia Telluride — the model's median is 315. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.4% of them mention start, against 3.7% 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 | 93 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 315 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- start — 20.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the model's other years (5.5×).
- without — 19.4% of this year's complaints, against 7.5% across the model's other years (2.6×).
- replicate — 12.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: replicate, sounded, stall.
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
Twice I was making a right hand turn through a green light and an alarm sounded and the dash displayed an ”Engine Off” message. I was able to pull over and restart the car. I took it to the dealership but they were not able to replicate the incident. They told…
While driving, alarm bells go off and the display reads “engine is off. Pull over and put in p/n”. Car maintains radio but engine is off until able to be restarted. Has happened twice and been brought to dealership twice. They say there is no code showing and…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V494000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V745000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 26V105000 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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