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2005 KIA SEDONA — Complaint #599022

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM filed October 10, 2006

NHTSA complaint #599022 (ODI reference 10170434) concerns a 2005 KIA SEDONA and was filed on October 10, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 6, 2006. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum 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 2005 KIA SEDONA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 KIA SEDONA
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM
State
Oklahoma

Complaint Description

2005 KIA SEDONA LX PURCHASED NEW FROM DEALER ON 3-10-05. ON 3/24/05, TOOK VAN IN FOR INITIAL OIL CHANGE AND ASKED THEM TO CHECK BRAKES AS WELL BECAUSE OF EXCESSIVE NOISE, GRINDING, AND A PULSATING WHEN USING BRAKES. MILEAGE WAS 2890. WHEN TECHNICIAN CHECKED BRAKES, THE ROTORS WERE FOUND TO BE WARPED, SO THEY WERE RESURFACED. ON 9/17/05, TOOK VAN BACK IN FOR GRINDING NOISES AS WELL AS TRANSMISSION SLIPPAGE. MILEAGE WAS 7781. ACCORDING TO THE TECHNICIAN, NO FAULT WAS FOUND WITH BRAKING SYSTEM AND NOISED WAS BLAMED ON HIGH HUMIDITY. NO FAULT FOUND ON TRANSMISSION EITHER. THROTTLE UPGRADE RECALL PERFORMED AT THIS TIME. ON 12/27/05, TOOK VAN BACK IN FOR SHAKING AND VIBRATING WHEN BRAKING. MILEAGE WAS 10664. TECHNICIAN FOUND THAT THE ROTORS WERE AGAIN WARPED. TRIED TO RESURFACE AGAIN, BUT FOUND FLAW IN MATERIAL, SO NEW FRONT DISC PLATES WERE REPLACED. ON 3/20/06, VAN ONCE AGAIN TAKEN IN FOR POPPING AND NOISES MADE WHEN BRAKING. MILEAGE WAS 15325. TECHNICIANS FOUND NO ISSUES AND SAID THAT

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 599022
ODI Number 10170434
Date Filed October 10, 2006
Failure Date October 6, 2006
VIN KNDUP132456

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