Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

2005 KIA Optima

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

0
Open recalls
144
NHTSA complaints
2
Defect investigations
22
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

144 filed
7
Crashes
1
Fires
6
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
    62
  • Electrical System
    29
  • AIR Bags
    19
  • STRUCTURE:BODY
    12
  • STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
    9
  • Fuel SYSTEM, Gasoline
    6
  • Unknown OR Other
    6
  • Engine AND Engine Cooling
    5

NHTSA investigations

2 actions
DP22003·ENGINE2022-09-12 → 2023-12-12

Loss of Motive Power

DP21003·VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:THROTTLE 2021-11-12 → 2023-06-20

Throttle control system vulnerabilities

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