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2012 KIA SORENTO — Complaint #1558153

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558153 (ODI reference 11196536) concerns a 2012 KIA SORENTO and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 12, 2018. The vehicle had 88,861 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 2012 KIA SORENTO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2012 KIA SORENTO
Component
ENGINE
State
Illinois
Mileage
88,861 mi

Complaint Description

THE ENGINE SEIZED UP. WE HAVE MADE REGULAR OIL CHANGES ON THE CAR. THERE WAS FOUND TO BE METAL SHAVINGS IN THE OIL, WHICH IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT. IT IS 2012 WITH 88,861 MILES ON IT. IT WOULD NOT START SO WE HAD TO TOWED TO LIBERTYVILLE KIA DEALER. THE SERVICE CENTER SAID THAT THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY METAL SHAVINGS IN THE OIL PAN WITH THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558153
ODI Number 11196536
Date Filed April 15, 2019
Failure Date October 12, 2018
VIN 5XYKT3A14CG

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