2000 Kia Sportage defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2000 Kia Sportage. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• FUEL TANK LEAKAGE
  Engineering Analysis EA06007 · opened May 9, 2006 · closed Nov 30, 2007

  A safety-related defect trend has not been identified at this time.review of the warranty data revealed elevated tank leakage experience in vehicles produced from june 1999 to october 2000.analysis of complaints and warranty claims identified multiple causes and origins of fuel tank assembly leakage.the majority of com…

• FUEL TANK LEAKAGE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE06002 · opened Jan 4, 2006 · closed May 9, 2006

  On january 4, 2006, the office of defects investigation (odi) opened a preliminary evaluation to investigate alleged fuel leakage from the steel fuel storage tank in certain model year 1999-2000 kia sportage vehicles.odi sent a letter to the manufacturer on january 25, 2006 requesting information about these and other …

• SEAT BELT BUCKLE FALSE LATCH/MALFUNCTION
  Engineering Analysis EA04007 · opened Feb 27, 2004 · closed Jul 26, 2004

  The manufacturer has initiated a safety related campaign to recall the subject vehicles for correction of the seat belt buckle defect.the corrective action is to replace the seat belts/buckles.this safety recall program has been assigned nhtsa campaign no. 04v305.

• SEAT BELT BUCKLE FALSE LATCH/MALFUNCTION
  Recall Query RQ03007 · opened Oct 14, 2003 · closed Feb 27, 2004 · led to recall 04V305000

  Information received and analyzed during this rq disclosed that my 1999 and 2000 kia sephia and sportage vehicles were equipped with modified versions of the same safety belt latch assembly as those recalled in campaign no. 02v-216.these latch assemblies were identified as type a97. Odi analyses indicate a continuing t…

• VEHICLE ROLLOVER
  Defect Petition DP02006 · opened Jun 5, 2002 · closed Sep 23, 2002

  There is no summary currently available

• INCORRECT BATTERY JUMP-START
  Preliminary Evaluation PE00026 · opened Jul 10, 2000 · closed Jul 31, 2000 · led to recall 00V205000

  Allege battety may explode if owner's attempt to jump-state the vehicle by following the owner's manual diagram