Federal complaint record · Kia Sorento · model year 2009

2009 Kia Sorento

Owners submitted 55 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 12th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 27% · group n = 21Electrical · 18% · group n = 14Powertrain · 11% · group n = 9Brakes · 10% · group n = 8Stability control · 10% · group n = 8
55
Complaint records on file
43,225
Median mileage at the reported problem · 40 complaints reported mileage
27%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 21
12th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 37 model years

Airbags · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags27%

Airbags reports

Kia Sorento · model year 2009

Reports in this group21
Share of classified reports27%
Component groups on file6
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From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 13 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32009 Kia Sorento
Transmission behavior · 9 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32009 Kia Sorento
Brake performance · 7 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32009 Kia Sorento

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

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