NHTSA Safety Recalls
2018 Kia Sedona Recalls
The 2018 Kia Sedona has 3 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on January 25, 2022.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2018 Kia Sedona. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 3
- Owner complaints
- 49
- Crashes reported
- 1
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
5 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2018 Kia Sedona, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
3 recalls on the 2018 Kia Sedona
Air bags
- Campaign
- 22V031000
- Reported
- January 25, 2022
- Vehicles affected
- up to 410,619
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2017, 2019 Sedona, 3 other models
Electrical system: wiring
- Campaign
- 19V109000
- Reported
- February 19, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 94,389
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2015–2017 Sedona
Structure: body: door
- Campaign
- 18V338000
- Reported
- May 23, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 106,428
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 2015–2017 Sedona
2018 Kia Sedona complaints by year
NHTSA has received 49 owner complaints about the 2018 Kia Sedona, the newest on October 16, 2026. Of these, 1 describe a crash (2%) and 5 a fire; owners reported 1 injury.
In complaints about the 2018 Kia Sedona, the component group named most often is the engine (45%), followed by the electrical system (22%) and the air bags (12%).
1 of the 2018 Kia Sedona's 3 recalls also concerns the electrical system.
Where 2018 Kia Sedona owners gave the mileage (14 complaints), the median was 14,750 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Engine22
- Electrical System11
- Air Bags6
- Power Train3
- Structure3
- Unknown Or Other3
Complaints received, by year
| 2018 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 4 | |
| 2023 | 5 | |
| 2024 | 12 | |
| 2025 | 10 | |
| 2026 | 5 |
Complaints about the 2018 Kia Sedona peaked in 2024, when NHTSA received 12. 27% arrived between 2017 and 2021, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2018 vehicles, the 2018 Kia Sedona drew 0.3× the complaints of the median Kia Sedona year in the same window: 15th highest of the 16 ranked years.
That makes 2018 one of the three best-measured Kia Sedona years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 49 complaints about the 2018 Kia Sedona are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Kia Sedona by model year
Other 2018 Kia models
Newest record on this page: October 16, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted