NHTSA Complaint #11245752 — 2011 KIA SPORTAGE

KIA TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN TRANSAXLE OIL TEMPERATURE SENSOR DTC P0711, P0712 & P0713 HTTPS://STATIC.OEMDTC.COM/TSB/2012-043.PDF MY VEHICLE, WHEN STILL COLD EXPERIENCES ROUGH SHIFTING. VEHICLE WILL SLAM INTO GEAR, UP THROUGH GEARS AND DOWN SHIFT HARD AS WELL, UNTIL THE CAR HAS WARMED UP. AFTER THAT THE SHIFTING ISSUE GOES AWAY. I HAVE TAKEN THE VEHICLE INTO THE SHOP MULTIPLE TIMES, FOR THE PROBLEM, AND THEY HAD TROUBLE DUPLICATING THE PROBLEM AS THE VEHICLE HAD WARMED UP TRANSMISSION REPAIR SHOP IS CURRENTLY REPLACING TEMP SENSOR AS THE VEHICLE IS REPEATING THE ISSUE AND ALSO STORED CODE RELATED TO THE PROBLEM. THIS VEHICLE HAS HAD MULTIPLE RECALL RELATED ISSUES, INCLUDING THE ENGINE SEIZING (WHICH WAS REPLACED UNDER RECALL) WHICH DAMAGED THE TURBO (ALSO REPLACED AS PART OF THE ENGINE RECALL). ALSO, THE BRAKE SWITCH LIGHT HAS BEEN REPLACED MULTIPLE TIMES (ONLY ONCE FOR FREE) DUE TO FAILURE (RELATED TO A RECALL ON THAT AS WELL). THANK YOU, [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR