2022 Kia Sportage
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Kia Sportage — the model's median is 111. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.7% of them mention alert, against 0.3% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Kia Sportage ran from 2017 to 2022, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 111 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- alert — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the other years of this generation (26.5×).
- stating — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the other years of this generation (10.6×).
- position — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the other years of this generation (10.6×).
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
intake camshaft position actuator circuit alert went off I have had the engine replaced 3 times in this car in the past year now, the first time in February of 2025 then in August of 2025 and again in October of 2025 and I am now having further engine troubles…
while the vehicle was parked with the engine running, there was an alert on the instrument panel that stating "Warning - System Overheating". The contact checked the coolant level, and the level was at the operational level; however, the A/C was not operating…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V703000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Sportage 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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