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2003 KIA SEDONA — Complaint #521494

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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:SPRINGS filed February 12, 2005

NHTSA complaint #521494 (ODI reference 10110384) concerns a 2003 KIA SEDONA and was filed on February 12, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 12, 2005. The vehicle had 31,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:springs, 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 vehicle speed control:springs 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 2003 KIA SEDONA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 KIA SEDONA
Component
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:SPRINGS
State
Ohio
Mileage
31,000 mi

Complaint Description

WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES, THE ACCELERATOR STICKS AND AUTO ACTS AS IF BOTH PEDALS ARE BEING PRESSED AT SAME TIME. THIS HAS HAPPENED ABOUT 20 TIMES SINCE PURCHASING THE AUTO ON 5/31/03. ON 2/12/05 I CAME TO A STOP AND THE AUTO WAS IDLING SO FAST THAT IT WAS ROARING AND INCHING FORWARD WHEN I HAD MY FOOT ON THE BRAKE AS HARD AS I COULD. ON 2/11/05 THIS CONDITION OCCURRED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. CAR HAS BEEN IDLING EXTREMELY FAST WITHOUT PRESSURE ON THE GAS PEDAL. I HAD THE CAR TOWED IN BY KIA ROADSIDE SERVICE BUT WAS TOLD THAT IF THEY COULD NOT CREATE THE PROBLEM THEY COULD DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO, KILL MYSELF BEFORE THEY TAKE CARE OF THIS PROBLEM? IF I HAD LET OFF THE BRAKE TODAY I COULD HAVE ENDED ACROSS A STREET, DOWN A HILL, AND INTO THE SIDE OF A BUILDING. KIA DID TOW MY CAR TO THE DEALERSHIP BUT I'M NOT SATISFIED UNLESS THEY FIND THE PROBLEM AND FIX IT SINCE I HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS SINCE DAY ONE BUYING THE CAR. I DROVE IT ABOUT 3 MILES AFTER BUYIN

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 521494
ODI Number 10110384
Date Filed February 12, 2005
Failure Date February 12, 2005
VIN KNDUP131036

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