2026 KIA EV9 — Complaint #2167169
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM filed January 16, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2167169 (ODI reference 11711520) concerns a 2026 KIA EV9 and was filed on January 16, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 23, 2025. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system, 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 EV9 cohort independently describe similar electrical system 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 2026 KIA EV9 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Instrument panel goes Black while driving. Keeps flickering on and off while driving. Took it to a dealer and they denied the flicker, even though I have 15 videos of it. Dealer just gave us the car back without fixing the issue and told us to live with it. This is extremely unsafe as we go up to a minute without seeing anything.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2167169 |
| ODI Number | 11711520 |
| Date Filed | January 16, 2026 |
| Failure Date | December 23, 2025 |
| VIN | 5XYAEFS59TG |
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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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