2016 KIA SOUL — Complaint #2141656
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL:CATALYTIC CONVERTOR filed October 21, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2141656 (ODI reference 11694653) concerns a 2016 KIA SOUL and was filed on October 21, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 17, 2015. The report was geocoded to Maine based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:emission control:catalytic convertor, 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 SOUL cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:exhaust system:emission control:catalytic convertor 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 SOUL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Catalytic converter may become damaged due to overheating caused by and excessive increase of exhaust gas temperatures.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2141656 |
| ODI Number | 11694653 |
| Date Filed | October 21, 2025 |
| Failure Date | October 17, 2015 |
| VIN | KNDJN2A23G7 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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