2022 Kia Seltos
This year drew an ordinary 71 complaints for a Kia Seltos — the model's median is 42. What they were about is the unusual part: 7% of them mention taking, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 71 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 42 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- taking — 7% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (35.2×). Owners wrote it as: taking, taking vehicle.
- stating — 7% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (35.2×).
- put — 18.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the model's other years (2.6×).
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 at red lights, my car shuts off. It happened within the first year I had my car but Scott Kia in Springfield, PA 19064 said "we can't duplicate the problem" and did nothing. Now this has happened 3 times within 3 weeks. This morning, it took several minu…
I had a flat tire and replaced it with the spare tire that came with the car. Because the vehicle is AWD, the tires need to be the same size, however, the spare tire was smaller. As a result, the car started smoking and driving very rough within 10 miles of th…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V099000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Seltos 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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