Kia Rio — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 3,618 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine768 (21.2%)
• Air bags (restraint system)546 (15.1%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2006–2008.
• Brakes362 (10.0%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2012–2021.
• Electrical system320 (8.8%)
• Fuel system204 (5.6%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2001–2004.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)196 (5.4%)

Other / uncategorized: 262 classifications (7.2%) 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 (2,574 records, model years 2001–2023) are most frequently classified under: engine, air bags (restraint system) and brakes.
• Manufacturer communications (1,478 records, model years 2001–2023) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories 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

• 1,388reports included a mileage
• 56,849average 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. 2001 255 records for 2001 255
2. 2002 147 records for 2002 147
3. 2003 97 records for 2003 97
4. 2004 54 records for 2004 54
5. 2005 49 records for 2005 49
6. 2006 101 records for 2006 101
7. 2007 71 records for 2007 71
8. 2008 82 records for 2008 82
9. 2009 76 records for 2009 76
10. 2010 61 records for 2010 61
11. 2011 75 records for 2011 75
12. 2012 180 records for 2012 180
13. 2013 290 records for 2013 290
14. 2014 158 records for 2014 158
15. 2015 156 records for 2015 156
16. 2016 171 records for 2016 171
17. 2017 101 records for 2017 101
18. 2018 101 records for 2018 101
19. 2019 83 records for 2019 83
20. 2020 97 records for 2020 97
21. 2021 78 records for 2021 78
22. 2022 33 records for 2022 33
23. 2023 31 records for 2023 31

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

• 322mention a crash
• 186mention a fire
• 292mention an injury
• 14mention a fatality

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 38
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,478
• Investigations NHTSA 26
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 34
• Owner complaints NHTSA 2,574

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0441 in 15 records · 2012–2016
• P0741 in 14 records · 2011–2020
• P0456 in 8 records · 2012–2017
• P0743 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0748 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0753 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0758 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0763 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0768 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0773 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P2709 in 8 records · 2012–2015
• P0128 in 7 records · 2006–2019

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.