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2015 Kia Sedona

This year drew an ordinary 137 complaints for a Kia Sedona — the model's median is 65. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.9% of them mention warning lights, against 2.6% across the model's other years.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• warning lights — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: warning lights, lamps.
• signal — 11.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: signal, turn signal, left turn, correctly.
• head — 12.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: head, gasket, head gasket, overheating.

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

OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS OUR LEFT TURN SIGNAL BEGAN ACTING UP. YOU WOULD TURN IT ON, AND IT WOULD EITHER SHOW NOTHING, OR SHOW THE RIGHT TURN SIGNAL ON. YOU WOULD HAVE TO TURN IT OFF AND ON SEVERAL TIMES TO GET IT TO WORK CORRECTLY. WE HAVE TAKEN IT IN F…

while driving at an undisclosed speed, the engine overheated. No warning lights were illuminated. In addition, the thermostat gauge indicated that the engine was overheating. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed with a cracked head gaske…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 18V338000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
• 21V725000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
• 19V109000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.

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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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