NHTSA Safety Recalls
2001 Kia Sportage Recalls
The 2001 Kia Sportage has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2001 Kia Sportage. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 228
- Crashes reported
- 25
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
4 fires
On a 2001 Kia Sportage, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2001 Kia Sportage
2001 Kia Sportage complaints by year
NHTSA has received 228 owner complaints about the 2001 Kia Sportage, the newest on March 29, 2018. Of these, 25 describe a crash (11%) and 4 a fire; owners reported 17 injuries.
In complaints about the 2001 Kia Sportage, the component group named most often is the fuel system, gasoline (22%), followed by the engine and engine cooling (20%) and the service brakes, hydraulic (11%).
None of the 2001 Kia Sportage's 2 recalls concerns the fuel system, gasoline.
Where 2001 Kia Sportage owners gave the mileage (125 complaints), the median was 65,500 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Fuel System, Gasoline50
- Engine And Engine Cooling45
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic25
- Structure24
- Electrical System23
- Power Train22
Complaints received, by year
| 2001 | 21 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 31 | |
| 2003 | 36 | |
| 2004 | 25 | |
| 2005 | 16 | |
| 2006 | 9 | |
| 2007 | 16 | |
| 2008 | 9 | |
| 2009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | 17 | |
| 2011 | 14 | |
| 2012 | 8 | |
| 2013 | 4 | |
| 2014 | 7 | |
| 2015 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2001 Kia Sportage peaked in 2003, when NHTSA received 36. 50% arrived between 2000 and 2004, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2001 vehicles, the 2001 Kia Sportage drew 3.6× the complaints of the median Kia Sportage year in the same window: 3rd highest of the 20 ranked years.
That makes 2001 one of the Kia Sportage years to avoid by our method.
The 228 complaints about the 2001 Kia Sportage are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Kia Sportage by model year
Other 2001 Kia models
Newest record on this page: March 29, 2018. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted