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.
2012 KIA OPTIMA HYBRID
3 safety recall campaigns, 7 defect investigations (1 open), 153 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations71 open
Owner complaints153
Complaints citing a crash12
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
20V750000
ENGINE
An engine compartment fire increases the risk of injury.
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.
What owners report most
- 72ENGINE
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 10POWER TRAIN
- 9STEERING
- 8UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 6SERVICE BRAKES
- 5SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 5VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 KIA OPTIMA HYBRIDs 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.