Nearly Half A Million Kia Owners Warned To Park Outside Due To Significant Fire Risk

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued an urgent warning to owners of 463,000 Kia Telluride crossover SUVs, advising them to parkland their vehicles outdoors owed to a important occurrence risk.

The recall, affecting models from 2020 done 2024, stems from beforehand powerfulness spot motors that tin overheat and perchance origin a fire.

This is not nan first clip these vehicles person faced specified a information concern; they were antecedently recalled successful 2024 for nan identical issue.

NHTSA emphasizes that owners must proceed parking their Tellurides distant from buildings and different vehicles until nan caller repair is completed.

Kia is alert of 7 spot fires and 11 spot motors melting, NHTSA said, and will notify affected owners starting connected August 13 to schedule a hole astatine their section dealership.

The agency explained that if nan beforehand powerfulness spot descent screen aliases knob is accidentally struck, nan move tin go dislodged, misaligned, aliases damaged.

This tin lead to nan spot centrifugal operating continuously and overheating, pinch fires imaginable whether nan conveyance is parked aliases being driven.

Furthermore, an improper repair from nan 2024 callback could besides lend to nan centrifugal overheating.

Dealers will reside nan problem by installing an physics fuse assembly to forestall continuous cognition of nan spot centrifugal if nan move is compromised.