2014 KIA SPORTAGE — Complaint #1880933
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY:CABLES filed March 17, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1880933 (ODI reference 11512416) concerns a 2014 KIA SPORTAGE and was filed on March 17, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 19, 2022. The vehicle had 121,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables, 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 SPORTAGE cohort independently describe similar electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables 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 2014 KIA SPORTAGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 Kia Sportage. The contact stated while attempting to start the vehicle, the vehicle failed to start immediately and required several attempts to start the vehicle. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact stated that the failure was constant. The contact had taken the vehicle to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed and determined that the battery was too small and that the battery terminal leads were too long and could be a fire hazard and needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 121,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1880933 |
| ODI Number | 11512416 |
| Date Filed | March 17, 2023 |
| Failure Date | November 19, 2022 |
| VIN | KNDPB3AC8E7 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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