2015 KIA SOUL — Complaint #1557816
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NHTSA Complaint about UNKNOWN OR OTHER filed April 14, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557816 (ODI reference 11196130) concerns a 2015 KIA SOUL and was filed on April 14, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 14, 2019. The vehicle had 22,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as unknown or other, 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 SOUL cohort independently describe similar unknown or other 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 SOUL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY CAR IS VERY SLUGGISH WHEN I PRESS THE GAS PEDAL IT FEELS LIKE MY ENGINE DOES NOT WANT TO GO, AND WHEN I'M IDLING I FEEL AS IF MY ENGINE WILL STALL UNLESS I PRESS THE GAS, I HAVE CONTACTED KIA REGARDING THIS PROBLEM AND THE ASSOCIATE I SPOKE WITH SAID THAT MY VEHICLE HAS BEEN RECALLED UNDER THE SC176 CAMPAIGN ( THIS WAS IN FEBRUARY 2019) IT IS NOW APRIL 14TH, AND ACCORDING TO KIA MY CAR IS NOT OFFICIALLY RECALLED AS OF YET.. BASICALLY I FEEL I'M DRIVING AROUND IN A TICKING TIME BOMB. . AND ACCORDING TO THE RECALL I AM, THE RECALL IS DUE TO A POSSIBLE ENGINE FAILURE AND FIRE .. MY 2015 KIA SOUL ONLY HAS 22,500 MILES ON IT ... I FEEL KIA IS ( NO PUN INTENDED ) STALLING REGARDING THIS HIGHLY DANGEROUS SAFETY RECALL.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557816 |
| ODI Number | 11196130 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 14, 2019 |
| VIN | KNDJN2A23F7 |
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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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