2024 Kia EV9 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2024 Kia EV9. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Windshield Wiper Failure
  Preliminary Evaluation PE25004 · opened Apr 29, 2025 · closed Mar 11, 2026

  On April 29, 2025, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this Preliminary Evaluation (PE25004) to investigate inoperative windshield wipers in model year (MY) 2024-2025 Kia EV9 vehicles. The complaints report windshield wipers that malfunction while driving, when snow and/or ice accumulates on or at the …