Kia Cadenza 2018–2021 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin TSB_CHA111 · NHTSA communication 10202227 · issued Oct 6, 2021
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Steering
component
2018–2021
model years
36
vehicle entries
Official summary
TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN: REPLACEMENT OF MOBIS C-MDPS SMALL BEARING - This bulletin provides the procedure to replace the small bearing of the Column Motor Driven Power Steering (C-MDPS) unit on the vehicles listed below, which may exhibit an abnormal noise when steering left and right. This may be caused by foreign substances in the MDPS worm shaft small bearing. On some vehicles when the steering wheel is rotated a scraping noise can be heard originating from the lower bearing on the Worm Gear Small Bearing and does not affect the steering effort.
Vehicles covered
- 2018 Kia Cadenza
- 2019 Kia Cadenza
- 2020 Kia Cadenza
- 2021 Kia Cadenza
- 2018 Kia Forte
- 2019 Kia Forte
- 2020 Kia Forte
- 2021 Kia Forte
- 2021 Kia K5
- 2018 Kia Niro
- 2019 Kia Niro
- 2020 Kia Niro
- 2021 Kia Niro
- 2019 Kia Niro EV
- 2020 Kia Niro EV
- 2021 Kia Niro EV
- 2018 Kia Niro PHEV
- 2020 Kia Niro PHEV
- 2021 Kia Niro PHEV
- 2019 Kia Niro Plug-In Hybrid
- 2018 Kia Optima
- 2019 Kia Optima
- 2020 Kia Optima
- 2018 Kia Optima Hybrid
- 2019 Kia Optima Hybrid
- 2020 Kia Optima Hybrid
- 2018 Kia Optima PHEV
- 2019 Kia Optima PHEV
- 2020 Kia Optima PHEV
- 2018 Kia Sorento
- 2019 Kia Sorento
- 2020 Kia Sorento
- 2018 Kia Soul
- 2019 Kia Soul
- 2018 Kia Soul EV
- 2019 Kia Soul EV
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.