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2016 KIA SEDONA — Complaint #1943467

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM:FAN filed November 16, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1943467 (ODI reference 11555387) concerns a 2016 KIA SEDONA and was filed on November 16, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2023. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:cooling system:fan, 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 SEDONA cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:cooling system:fan 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 2016 KIA SEDONA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 KIA SEDONA
Component
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM:FAN
State
New Jersey

Complaint Description

No warning lights ever came on. We took the vehicle to the KIA dealer because the fan stayed on when we shut off the engine and the heat stopped working. The KIA dealer said the vehicle needs a new engine due to head gasket leakage. This vehicle clearly has a major engine defect that could cause the vehicle to breakdown at any time with a failed engine. How does an engine fail without the engine light ever coming on? The vehicle has been properly maintained with timely oil changes and fluid checks.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1943467
ODI Number 11555387
Date Filed November 16, 2023
Failure Date November 1, 2023
VIN KNDMB5C11G6

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