2015 KIA SORENTO — Complaint #1557804
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 14, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557804 (ODI reference 11196113) concerns a 2015 KIA SORENTO and was filed on April 14, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 7, 2019. The vehicle had 126,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 SORENTO cohort independently describe similar engine 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 2015 KIA SORENTO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE DRIVING ON THE EXPRESSWAY AT NIGHT, MY CAR LOST ACCELERATION. NO WARNING AT ALL !!! THE CAR COMPLETELY STOPPED BEFORE MAKING IT COMPLETELY TO THE SHOULDER. I HAD TO GET MY CAR PUSHED BY ANOTHER CAR TO AVOID A MAJOR ACCIDENT OR FATALITY. I LEARNED AFTER TOWING MY CAR TO A REPAIR SHOP THAT THERE WAS A RECALL THAT I WASN'T INFORMED OF AND MY MOTOR HAS TO BE REPLACED. THANK GOD HE SENT ANGEL'S TO PROTECT US.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557804 |
| ODI Number | 11196113 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 7, 2019 |
| VIN | 5XYKT4A68FG |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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