23V534000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:CLUTCHES/BANDS:ACTUATORS/SOLENOIDS
A fire increases the risk of injury.
2017 KIA NIRO
4 safety recall campaigns, 110 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints110
Complaints citing a crash4
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 4 of 4
22V836000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
Overheated rear seats increase the risk of a fire.
18V666000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
The increased electrical resistance can overheat the rear seat which is above the PRA, increasing the risk of a fire.
18V257000
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM
An electrical short can increase the risk of a fire.
What owners report most
- 27ENGINE
- 16POWER TRAIN
- 15ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 12UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 8FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 7STEERING
- 5STRUCTURE:BODY
- 3ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2017 KIA NIROs 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.