Federal complaint record · Kia Sorento · model year 2015

2015 Kia Sorento

Owners submitted 746 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 61th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2013 to 2017 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 38% · group n = 364Other · 12% · group n = 114Structure · 10% · group n = 99Lighting · 10% · group n = 91Electrical · 6% · group n = 57

746

Complaint records on file

74,990

Median mileage at the reported problem · 339 complaints reported mileage

38%

Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 364

61th

Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files

Component group 01 · Engine38%

Engine reports

Kia Sorento · model year 2015

Reports in this group364

Share of classified reports38%

Component groups on file6

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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years

2014

0.9complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years

978 matched incidents

This car

2015

0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years

746 matched incidents

2016

1.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years

1,239 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

Stalling or shutdown · 105 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32015 Kia Sorento

Engine damage · 77 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 2 of 32015 Kia Sorento

Fire or smoke · 68 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32015 Kia Sorento

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

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