2012 Kia Sedona defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2012 Kia Sedona. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Air bags may be disabled during crash
  Preliminary Evaluation PE18003 · opened Mar 16, 2018 · closed Aug 30, 2019 · led to recall 18V363000

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened PE18-003 on 3/16/18 to investigate incidents involving crashes, resulting in significant collision related damage, where the frontal airbags failed to deploy. ODI reviewed complaint data, available design, test, and field data on the model year (MY) 2011 Hyundai Sonata, …