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Kia Sportage 2005technical service bulletin

Bulletin 044 · NHTSA communication 10015249 · issued Apr 1, 2005

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electronic Stability Control
component
2005
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Deceleration when driving or turning due to the sensitivity of the esp logic. These vehicle's esp software logic must be reprogrammed to avoid this sensitivity of operation. Recall campaign - esp reprogramming. *tt

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.