Federal complaint record · Kia Sportage · model year 2023

2023 Kia Sportage

Owners submitted 182 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 59th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2021 to 2025 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is driver assistance. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Driver assistance · 20% · group n = 60Other · 15% · group n = 46Electrical · 14% · group n = 43Engine · 12% · group n = 37Brakes · 12% · group n = 35
182
Complaint records on file
26,887
Median mileage at the reported problem · 29 complaints reported mileage
20%
Of classified component entries name driver assistance · group n = 60
59th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

What the numbers tell you

Understanding the 2023 Kia Sportage complaints

Which systems appear most often?

The largest component group is driver assistance: 60 entries, or 19.7% of classified component entries. Next is other: 46 entries, or 15.1% of classified component entries. A complaint can name several components, so these percentages describe the entries in the file, not the percentage of vehicles affected. Only the leading component groups are displayed.

At what mileage were problems reported?

The median reported mileage is 26,887 miles, based on 29 complaints with usable mileage (15.9% of the 182 complaint incidents). Half of those reported mileages are at or below the median and half at or above it. This sample excludes missing or unusable mileage and does not predict when another vehicle will develop a problem.

Use these patterns to prepare questions about a particular vehicle's service history. Complaint reports describe submitted experiences; they do not establish the cause, repair cost, or condition of every 2023 Kia Sportage. Read the symptom groups below alongside the source documents and a VIN-specific recall check.

Driver assistance · 19.7% of classified component entries

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Driver assistance20%

Driver assistance reports

Kia Sportage · model year 2023

Component entries in this group60
Share of classified component entries19.7%
Leading component groups shown6
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From the record · recurring narrative clusters

Reported problems with the 2023 Kia Sportage

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 34 reports

34 of the 182 2023 Kia Sportage complaint incidents were assigned to the brake performance group.

18.7% of this model year's complaint incidents matched this group first in the keyword screen. This is a text classification, not a confirmed diagnosis.

Cluster 1 of 32023 Kia Sportage
Stalling or shutdown · 23 reports

23 2023 Kia Sportage complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 12.6% of the 182 incidents on file.

Cluster 2 of 32023 Kia Sportage
Airbag concerns · 10 reports

10 2023 Kia Sportage complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 5.5% of the 182 incidents on file.

Cluster 3 of 32023 Kia Sportage

Each complaint is assigned to the first matching keyword group, even if it mentions several symptoms. Only the leading published groups are shown. Unmatched reports and other groups remain in the total, so these percentages need not add to 100%. A keyword match can miss context; it is not an owner quotation or proof of a defect.

Sources and further research

Research the 2023 Kia Sportage

This page summarizes owner-submitted NHTSA complaints through 2026-07-19. Complaint patterns do not establish a defect in every vehicle. The complaint counts here are not recall counts, and this page does not determine whether a particular vehicle has an open recall. Check a VIN for open recalls at NHTSA and read how MotorCensus processes the complaint data.

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