2005 KIA SEDONA — Complaint #620267
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM filed April 12, 2007
NHTSA complaint #620267 (ODI reference 10187702) concerns a 2005 KIA SEDONA and was filed on April 12, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 1, 2005. The report was geocoded to West Virginia 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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.
Complaint Description
BOUGHT VAN NEW. AT 9K STARTED VIBRATING. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY REPLACED ROTORS. AGAIN AT 20K. THEN THEY REPLACED THE REAR DRUMS FOR VIBRATING. THEN THEY TURNED ROTORS AND DRUMS TO CORRECT VIBRATION. MECHANICS AND SERVICE MANAGERS ALL TELL ME IT'S A KNOWN PROBLEM BECAUSE VANS WEIGHT WAS INCREASE TO GET BETTER SAFETY RATING, BUT THEY USED LIGHT WEIGHT BRAKES AND THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE HEAVIER VAN AND OVERHEAT AND WARP. AFTER ALL THIS, THEY TELL ME KNOW THAT THEY WON'T COVER TO FIX ISSUE ANY MORE, SAYING IT ISN'T A SAFETY ISSUE. IF THEY ROTORS/DRUMS AREN'T SUFFICIENT TO STOP VEHICLE CORRECTLY, SEEMS TO BE A SAFETY ISSUE TO ME. NEED TO HAVE THIS INVESTIGATED AND ACTION TAKEN. I HAVE OPENED A CASE W/ KIA CORP. TO REVIEW AND MAKE A DECISION. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR MORE INFO. THANKS. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 620267 |
| ODI Number | 10187702 |
| Date Filed | April 12, 2007 |
| Failure Date | May 1, 2005 |
Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM Complaints for 2005 KIA SEDONA
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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