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2012 KIA SORENTO — Complaint #1807515

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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:POWER ADJUST filed April 15, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1807515 (ODI reference 11460946) concerns a 2012 KIA SORENTO and was filed on April 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 14, 2022. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:power adjust, 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 seats:front assembly:power adjust 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
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:POWER ADJUST
State
California

Complaint Description

driver's electric seat moves on its own

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1807515
ODI Number 11460946
Date Filed April 15, 2022
Failure Date April 14, 2022
VIN 5XYKW4A24CG

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