Kia K900 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 206 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Lights42 (20.4%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2015–2016.
• Air bags (restraint system)32 (15.5%)
• Electrical system26 (12.6%)
• Brakes22 (10.7%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2015–2018.
• Engine18 (8.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2019–2020.
• Body & structure12 (5.8%)

Other / uncategorized: 16 classifications (7.8%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (136 records, model years 2015–2019) are most frequently classified under: lights, air bags (restraint system) and electrical system.
• Manufacturer communications (336 records, model years 2015–2020) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 60reports included a mileage
• 31,465average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2015 131 records for 2015 131
2. 2016 67 records for 2016 67
3. 2017 41 records for 2017 41
4. 2018 23 records for 2018 23
5. 2019 29 records for 2019 29
6. 2020 27 records for 2020 27

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 2mention a crash
• 2mention a fire
• 2mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 15
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 336
• Investigations NHTSA 5
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 9
• Owner complaints NHTSA 136

Explore the underlying evidence records