2005 Kia Sedona — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 272 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Brakes94 (34.6%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 2003–2010.
• Tires & wheels24 (8.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2003–2005.
• Engine23 (8.5%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2003–2005.
• Electrical system22 (8.1%)Official recall records for this system: 14, covering model years 2002–2021.
• Suspension17 (6.3%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2006–2012.
• Air bags (restraint system)16 (5.9%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2010–2019.

Other / uncategorized: 8 classifications (2.9%) 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 (4,802 records, model years 2002–2021) are most frequently classified under: engine, electrical system and brakes.
• Safety recalls (91 records, model years 2002–2020) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, brakes and lights.
• Transport Canada recalls (118 records, model years 2002–2021) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, brakes and air bags (restraint system).
• Manufacturer communications (1,405 records, model years 2002–2021) 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

• 144reports included a mileage
• 53,651average 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. 2002 231 records for 2002 231
2. 2003 196 records for 2003 196
3. 2004 201 records for 2004 201
4. 2005 211 records for 2005 211
5. 2006 439 records for 2006 439
6. 2007 207 records for 2007 207
7. 2008 214 records for 2008 214
8. 2009 100 records for 2009 100
9. 2010 88 records for 2010 88
10. 2011 158 records for 2011 158
11. 2012 204 records for 2012 204
12. 2014 116 records for 2014 116
13. 2015 292 records for 2015 292
14. 2016 416 records for 2016 416
15. 2017 226 records for 2017 226
16. 2018 111 records for 2018 111
17. 2019 100 records for 2019 100
18. 2020 81 records for 2020 81
19. 2021 58 records for 2021 58

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

• 20mention a crash
• 9mention a fire
• 16mention 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 2
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 22
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
• Owner complaints NHTSA 185

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.

• P0638 in 1 record
• P2135 in 1 record

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.