2024 KIA SELTOS — Complaint #2058647
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:HORN filed January 23, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2058647 (ODI reference 11637877) concerns a 2024 KIA SELTOS and was filed on January 23, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 23, 2024. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:horn, 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 SELTOS cohort independently describe similar electrical system:horn 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 2024 KIA SELTOS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2024 Kia Seltos. The contact stated that the horn failed to produce a sound while being pressed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the horn needed to be replaced. The horn had been replaced. The failure occurred twice; however, the contact stated that the failure only occurred in freezing temperatures. The vehicle had not been taken to the dealer. The vehicle had not been repaired a second time. The manufacturer had not been made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2058647 |
| ODI Number | 11637877 |
| Date Filed | January 23, 2025 |
| Failure Date | March 23, 2024 |
| VIN | KNDEPCAA2R7 |
Similar ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:HORN Complaints for 2024 KIA SELTOS
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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