Kia Soul: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Kia Soul, model years 2010 to 2025. NHTSA has 5,541 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 16 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Kia Soul NHTSA page | 0 | 12 | 3% | |
| 2024 Kia Soul | 0 | 29 | 8% | |
| 2023 Kia Soul | 4 | 52 | 15% | 288,924 |
| 2022 Kia Soul | 1 | 88 | 25% | 137,256 |
| 2021 Kia Soul | 2 | 234 | 68% | 284,505 |
| 2020 Kia Soul | 1 | 381 | 110% | 147,249 |
| 2019 Kia Soul | 1 | 136 | 39% | 410,619 |
| 2018 Kia Soul | 1 | 218 | 63% | 410,619 |
| 2017 Kia Soul | 1 | 272 | 79% | 410,619 |
| 2016 Kia Soul | 2 | 815 | 235% | 721,348 |
| 2015 Kia Soul | 4 | 898 | 259% | 1,224,962 |
| 2014 Kia Soul | 5 | 901 | 260% | 1,353,242 |
| 2013 Kia Soul | 3 | 662 | 191% | 2,204,473 |
| 2012 Kia Soul | 3 | 514 | 148% | 2,204,473 |
| 2011 Kia Soul | 3 | 194 | 56% | 2,805,883 |
| 2010 Kia Soul | 3 | 135 | 39% | 1,110,876 |
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
7,605 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | 410.8 | 3,124 |
| Unknown or Other | 84.3 | 641 |
| Electrical System | 69.3 | 527 |
| Steering | 68.1 | 518 |
| Power Train | 56.4 | 429 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 54.6 | 415 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 45.4 | 345 |
| Exterior Lighting | 33.3 | 253 |
| Air Bags | 26.7 | 203 |
| Service Brakes | 26.3 | 200 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Sorento40 campaigns
- Optima22 campaigns
- Sportage36 campaigns
- Forte18 campaigns
- Sedona23 campaigns
- Telluride19 campaigns
- Sephia8 campaigns
- RIO11 campaigns
- Spectra2 campaigns
- Seltos4 campaigns
- EV65 campaigns
- K59 campaigns
- Carnival7 campaigns
- Niro6 campaigns
- Rondo5 campaigns
- Optima Hybrid5 campaigns
- EV910 campaigns
- Amanti2 campaigns
- Cadenza6 campaigns
- Stinger7 campaigns
- Sportage Hybrid2 campaigns
- Sedona EX1 campaign
- Sorento Hybrid6 campaigns
- Borrego4 campaigns
- Niro EV6 campaigns
- Carnival Hybrid1 campaign
- K9004 campaigns
- Niro Phev3 campaigns
- K43 campaigns
- Forte Koup5 campaigns
- Sorento Phev8 campaigns
- Soul EV5 campaigns
- Sportage Phev3 campaigns
- Optima Phev2 campaigns
- Telluride Hybrid2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Kia Soul: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/kia/soul/. 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 Motors America
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 Soul model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2014 with 5, 2023 with 4, 2015 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Kia Soul model year has the most complaints?
- The 2014 model year, with 901 of the 5,541 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Kia Soul name?
- Engine: 410.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 84.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 69.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Kia Soul?
- 7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.