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2009 KIA RONDO — Complaint #1133861

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FLUID filed November 23, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1133861 (ODI reference 10660370) concerns a 2009 KIA RONDO and was filed on November 23, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 23, 2014. The report was geocoded to Oregon based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:fluid, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same KIA RONDO cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:fluid failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2009 KIA RONDO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2009 KIA RONDO
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FLUID
State
Oregon

Complaint Description

EVERY TIME I WENT THROUGH A PUDDLE TODAY THE PARKING BRAKE/BRAKE FLUID LIGHT AND THE CHARGING SYSTEM WARNING LIGHT WOULD COME ON. IT ALSO LOST POWER STEERING WHILE THIS HAPPENED. IT LASTED ONLY A FEW MOMENTS BUT WITH TRAFFIC AND KIDS IN THE BACK, A FEW MOMENTS IS LONG ENOUGH. THIS HAPPENED WITH EVERY PUDDLE AND EVEN ON THE FREEWAY WHEN WATER SPLASHED UNDERNEATH!! *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1133861
ODI Number 10660370
Date Filed November 23, 2014
Failure Date November 23, 2014

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.