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2010 Kia RIO: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2010 Kia RIO. NHTSA has 26 complaints on file for this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2010 Kia RIO. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 26 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

26 complaints, 38 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

2010 Kia RIO: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Air Bags12
Engine4
Electrical System4
Unknown or Other3
Service Brakes, Hydraulic2
Structure2
Service Brakes2
Fuel/Propulsion System2
Steering1
Tires1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 15.

Complaints that report a crash
9
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
8
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
7 Jul 2022

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2010 Kia RIO, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 5 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20000
  2. 20013
  3. 20021
  4. 20033
  5. 20042
  6. 20051
  7. 20061
  8. 20071
  9. 20081
  10. 20090
  11. 20100
  12. 20110
  13. 20121
  14. 20131
  15. 20141
  16. 20151
  17. 20162
  18. 20172
  19. 20181
  20. 20191
  21. 20201
  22. 20212
  23. 20221
  24. 20230

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2010 Kia RIO: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kia/rio/2010/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
KIA MOTORS AMERICA, INC.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Kia RIO have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Kia RIO, model years 2000 to 2023. None of them names the 2010 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2010 Kia RIO name most often?
Air Bags: 12 of 38 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2010 Kia RIO open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.