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Model years to avoid

Kia Sedona

What it says about you

Opinion

A minivan that undercut everything and did the same job. Value was the whole argument and it won.

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

16 model years on record, 1,859 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2016 (oil), 2006 (control arm). 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.

  • gasoline 2011, 2012 peak 15.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2021 0 recalls 9 complaints
  2. 2020 1 recall 20 complaints
  3. 2019 2 recalls 36 complaints
  4. 2018 3 recalls 48 complaints
  5. 2017 4 recalls 131 complaints
  6. 2016 oil 291 complaints
  7. 2015 3 recalls 137 complaints
  8. 2014 1 recall 38 complaints
  9. 2012 5 recalls 107 complaints
  10. 2011 6 recalls 65 complaints
  11. 2010 5 recalls 32 complaints
  12. 2009 5 recalls 48 complaints
  13. 2008 5 recalls 170 complaints
  14. 2007 6 recalls 157 complaints
  15. 2006 control arm 385 complaints
  16. 2005 2 recalls 185 complaints

What does a Kia Sedona 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.