24V244000
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER ARM
Front lower control arm failure can cause a sudden loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
2023 KIA FORTE
3 safety recall campaigns, 2 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 95 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
2 campaigns covering the 2023 KIA FORTE carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it2stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints95
Complaints citing a crash16
Complaints citing a fire7
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
23V649000
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER ARM
Front lower control arm failure can cause a sudden loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
22V906000
STEERING:LINKAGES:KNUCKLE:SPINDLE:ARM
A loss of steering control increases the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 13STEERING
- 9ENGINE
- 9ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
- 6POWER TRAIN
- 6SUSPENSION
- 6UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 5AIR BAGS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2023 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.