1999 KIA SPORTAGE — Complaint #635219
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:DELIVERY filed August 20, 2007
NHTSA complaint #635219 (ODI reference 10200185) concerns a 1999 KIA SPORTAGE and was filed on August 20, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 12, 2007. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:delivery, 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 SPORTAGE cohort independently describe similar fuel system, other:delivery 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 1999 KIA SPORTAGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO SHOP / NO START FUEL PUMP INOPERATIVE, RUST FOUND IN FUEL FILTER, FUEL TANK LEAKING EXTERNALLY ( RUSTED THROUGH ). *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 635219 |
| ODI Number | 10200185 |
| Date Filed | August 20, 2007 |
| Failure Date | August 12, 2007 |
| VIN | KNDJA623XX5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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