23V652000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:CONTROL UNIT/MODULE
An engine compartment fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.
2011 KIA FORTE
3 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations (1 open), 213 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations31 open
Owner complaints213
Complaints citing a crash44
Complaints citing a fire22
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
18V363000
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
If the frontal air bags and seat belt pretensioners are disabled, there is an increased risk of injury to the vehicle occupants in the event of a vehicle crash that necessitates deployment of these safety systems.
16V070000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES
If enough transmission fluid leaks out, the transmission may not function properly and the vehicle may stop moving, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 45ENGINE
- 34AIR BAGS
- 17POWER TRAIN
- 16SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 16ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 13UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 11SERVICE BRAKES
- 10VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2011 KIA FORTEs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.