Vehicle profile
2006 Kia Sorento
SUV · Sport Utility Vehicle - 2WD
Specifications
What's under the hood.
- Horsepower
- 192 hp
- Cylinders
- 6-cyl
- Displacement
- 3.5L
- Fuel
- Gasoline
- Transmission
- Automatic 5-spd
- Drive
- RWD
- Body class
- Sport Utility Vehicle - 2WD
- Doors
- 4
Federal recall campaigns
1 federal recall campaign.
How this compares
- vs 2006 Sport Utility Vehicle - 2WD
- 0.22× the 4.55 campaigns averaged across that group (fewer than typical)
- Most-affected system
- EXTERIOR LIGHTING — 1 of 1 (100%)
Derived from the federal campaign record across 2006 vehicles in the same body class. Counts are of campaigns, not of faults found.
09V130000
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS:SWITCHHUYNDAI-KIA IS RECALLING 139,844 MY 2006-2007- SEDONA, SPORTAGE, SORENTO AND MY RONDO AND AMANTI VEHICLES. THE STOP LAMP SWITCH IN THE AFFECTED VEHICLES MAY MALFUNCTION. A MALFUNCTIONING STOP LAMP SWITCH MAY CAUSE THE BRAKE LIGHTS TO NOT ILLUMINATE WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL IS DEPRESSED OR MAY CAUSE THE BRAKE LIGHTS TO REMAIN ILLUMINATED WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL IS RELEASED. A STOP LAMP SWITCH MALFUNCTION MAY ALSO AFFECT THE OPERATION OF THE BRAKE-TRANSMISSION SHIFT INTERLOCK FEATURE SO THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTER WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BE SHIFTED OUT OF THE PARK POSITION. IT MAY ALSO CAUSE THE ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) MALFUNCTION LIGHT TO ILLUMINATE, AND IT MAY NOT DEACTIVATE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL IS DEPRESSED.
Consequence: ANY OF THESE MALFUNCTIONS, ALONE OR IN COMBINATION, MAY LEAD TO A CRASH.
Remedy: DEALERS WILL REPLACE THE STOP LAMP SWITCH FREE OF CHARGE. THE RECALL BEGAN ON JUNE 17, 2009. OWNERS MAY CONTACT KIA'S CONSUMER ASSISTANCE CENTER AT 1-800-333-4542.
17/04/2009
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