Recall Register

Kia Sorento Phev: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Kia Sorento Phev, model years 2022 to 2026. NHTSA has 44 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 5 model years have a page on this register.

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.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

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

  1. 20225
  2. 20232
  3. 20240
  4. 20253
  5. 20261
Kia Sorento Phev: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Kia Sorento Phev NHTSA page100%42,677
2025 Kia Sorento Phev312136%118,531
2024 Kia Sorento Phev NHTSA page0223%
2023 Kia Sorento Phev2891%215,866
2022 Kia Sorento Phev522250%233,312

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

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

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.

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

Components in the complaints

75 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Kia Sorento Phev: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train186.714
Electrical System173.313
Engine146.711
Unknown or Other106.78
Forward Collision Avoidance806
Fuel/Propulsion System66.75
Service Brakes53.34
Seat Belts26.72
Trailer Hitches26.72
Vehicle Speed Control26.72

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Kia Sorento Phev, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Kia Sorento Phev, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2026, with 14 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Kia: all 36 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Kia Sorento Phev: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kia/sorento-phev/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
Kia America, Inc.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Kia Sorento Phev model years have the most recall campaigns?
2022 with 5, 2025 with 3, 2023 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Kia Sorento Phev model year has the most complaints?
The 2022 model year, with 22 of the 44 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Kia Sorento Phev name?
Power Train: 186.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 173.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 146.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Kia Sorento Phev?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.