NHTSA Safety Recalls
2000 Kia Sportage Recalls
The 2000 Kia Sportage has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on June 24, 2004.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2000 Kia Sportage. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 304
- Crashes reported
- 23
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
7 fires
On a 2000 Kia Sportage, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2000 Kia Sportage
Seat belts: front: buckle assembly
- Campaign
- 04V305000
- Reported
- June 24, 2004
- Vehicles affected
- up to 251,594
- Same campaign
- also 1 other model
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 00V205000
- Reported
- July 27, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 66,482
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Kia Sportage
Exterior lighting
- Campaign
- 09E012000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2002 Sportage, 57 other models
Exterior lighting: headlights
- Campaign
- 09E025000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2002 Sportage, 46 other models
2000 Kia Sportage complaints by year
NHTSA has received 304 owner complaints about the 2000 Kia Sportage, the newest on April 6, 2020. Of these, 23 describe a crash (8%) and 7 a fire; owners reported 17 injuries.
In complaints about the 2000 Kia Sportage, the component group named most often is the fuel system, gasoline (25%), followed by the service brakes, hydraulic (16%) and the engine and engine cooling (15%).
None of the 2000 Kia Sportage's 4 recalls concerns the fuel system, gasoline.
Where 2000 Kia Sportage owners gave the mileage (154 complaints), the median was 70,675 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Fuel System, Gasoline75
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic48
- Engine And Engine Cooling45
- Power Train41
- Electrical System32
- Structure31
Complaints received, by year
| 1999 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 28 | |
| 2001 | 35 | |
| 2002 | 37 | |
| 2003 | 44 | |
| 2004 | 17 | |
| 2005 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 24 | |
| 2007 | 26 | |
| 2008 | 11 | |
| 2009 | 10 | |
| 2010 | 16 | |
| 2011 | 8 | |
| 2012 | 11 | |
| 2013 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | |
| 2015 | 1 | |
| 2016 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2000 Kia Sportage peaked in 2003, when NHTSA received 44. 48% arrived between 1999 and 2003, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2000 vehicles, the 2000 Kia Sportage drew 4.1× the complaints of the median Kia Sportage year in the same window: 2nd highest of the 20 ranked years.
That makes 2000 one of the Kia Sportage years to avoid by our method.
The 304 complaints about the 2000 Kia Sportage are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Kia Sportage by model year
Other 2000 Kia models
Newest record on this page: April 6, 2020. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted