2025 KIA SORENTO — Complaint #2152786
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed November 30, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2152786 (ODI reference 11702095) concerns a 2025 KIA SORENTO and was filed on November 30, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 28, 2025. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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 engine 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 2025 KIA SORENTO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
My vehicle has an ongoing acceleration problem that feels like the engine and transmission are not communicating correctly. There are times when the vehicle will not accelerate even though the RPMs increase. Instead of picking up speed, it feels like the engine is pulling the vehicle back. This creates hesitation and uncertainty about whether the car will respond when I press the accelerator. This happens most noticeably at lower speeds (around 30â40 mph, often near 30 mph), where the RPMs may rise on their own even if I am maintaining steady pressure on the gas pedal. It also occurs when I need to accelerate quickly â such as merging onto the freeway or joining the flow of traffic â and the vehicle feels like it resists gaining speed. Even when I press the pedal gradually and correctly, the vehicle struggles to accelerate and the engine revs without the car moving forward as it should. I reported this to the dealership. They ran diagnostics and told me no issues were detected.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2152786 |
| ODI Number | 11702095 |
| Date Filed | November 30, 2025 |
| Failure Date | November 28, 2025 |
| VIN | 5XYRL4JC4SG |
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