19V539000
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Improper intervention of the Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist can increase the risk of a crash.
2019 KIA OPTIMA
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 317 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints317
Complaints citing a crash30
Complaints citing a fire9
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
- 86ENGINE
- 41UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 30FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
- 21ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 18SERVICE BRAKES
- 16POWER TRAIN
- 15FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 14STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2019 KIA OPTIMAs 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.