2008 Kia Sedona
This year drew an ordinary 170 complaints for a Kia Sedona — the model's median is 65. What they were about is the unusual part: 25.3% of them mention control, against 8.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 170 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 65 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 10 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- control — 25.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.8% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- restarted — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (5.4×).
- key — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: key, ignition.
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, THE SLIDING DOORS ERRONEOUSLY UNLOCKED AND OPENED. THE FAILURE OCCURRED ON BOTH THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER SIDES. ALSO, WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE, THE TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM WOULD ERRONEOUSLY ACTIVATE. AFTER INSERTING THE KEY INTO THE IGNITION…
TRAVELING AT 85 MPH, CRUISE CONTROL ON, "ESC OFF" LIGHT AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE DASHBOARD AND THE VEHICLE [VIN] RAPIDLY. LOST ABILITY TO ACCELERATE PAST 20 MPH. VEHICLE WAS STOPPED AND RESTARTED. ACCELERATOR RESUMED WORKING FOR HOWEVER THE CH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V088000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 16V387000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 13V114000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V389000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 13V550000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Sedona 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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