Kia Forte 2010 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SC-081 · NHTSA communication 10033813 · issued Apr 1, 2010
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2010
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Kia: airbag control unit (acu) reprogram. Information relating to an upgrade of the functioning of the logic in the air bag control unit in some vehicles to increase the range of impacts in which the side and curtain airbags will deploy. Provides information on how to reprogram the acu. *pe
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.