Federal complaint record · Kia Sorento · model year 2008

2008 Kia Sorento

Owners submitted 215 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 49th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 21% · group n = 67Stability control · 14% · group n = 44Engine · 14% · group n = 43Electrical · 10% · group n = 32Speed control · 9% · group n = 28
215
Complaint records on file
57,027
Median mileage at the reported problem · 178 complaints reported mileage
21%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 67
49th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 36 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags21%

Airbags reports

Kia Sorento · model year 2008

Reports in this group67
Share of classified reports21%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2007
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
154 matched incidents
This car
2008
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
215 matched incidents
2009
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
55 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 59 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32008 Kia Sorento
Brake performance · 31 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32008 Kia Sorento
Loss of propulsion · 22 reports

Reports describe reduced power or hesitation while driving

Cluster 3 of 32008 Kia Sorento

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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