20V750000
ENGINE
An engine compartment fire increases the risk of injury.
2015 KIA FORTE
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 325 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints325
Complaints citing a crash21
Complaints citing a fire21
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 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 156ENGINE
- 31UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 24ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 23AIR BAGS
- 17POWER TRAIN
- 15SERVICE BRAKES
- 13EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 10FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 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.