2023 KIA NIRO Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Problems
3 NHTSA complaints on file
Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Issues in the 2023 KIA NIRO
3 forward collision avoidance automatic emergency braking complaints have been filed with NHTSA for the 2023 KIA NIRO. Of these, 1 involved a crash, 0 involved a fire, and 1 resulted in injury.
3
Complaints
1
Crashes
0
Fires
1
Injuries
0
Deaths
All Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking Complaints
My wife was in an accident on [XXX] around [XXX] at the intersection of [XXX] . She had exchanged safety information with the person whose vehicle had stalled. She went to shut off the car upon exchanging the information and after pressing the ignition button the vehicle began to roll. She was outside of the vehicle when she had pressed the ignition button. She tried physically to stop the vehicle, trippped and was dragged until the vehicle came to a stop after running over her leg and hitting a tree. The vehicle had recall items addressed on October 2 or 3rd. She was trying to stop the vehicle from rolling as she knew that school was letting out and a school bus would be coming on the road she was at. I contacted the dealer about it and they stated that they had never heard of this happening with there...
Last year, I purchased a new 2023 Kia Niro Hybrid and had a 24-month lease contract on it. After 9 months (5,700 miles), my car started having problems (Forward Collision Warning, random loss of power steering). My car had to be towed twice to a KIA dealership, where I was told nothing was wrong with my car. They finally agreed to run a scan on the electric syste, where they found a few communication issues. After doing a system update, KIA told me the problems were fixed, however, the car kept having the same problems plus a new one (random Automatic Emergency Braking). At this point, the car was too unreliable to drive so I returned it to my KIA dealership. Although the car clearly had problems that Kia couldn’t fix, I had to pay to get out of my lease and ended up buying another car, not a KIA....
The components and systems failing are the brakes, adaptive cruise control, smart stop n go cruise control and electrical. Yes it is available for inspection upon request. The auto cruise control doesn’t give a safe distance to stop at (u r close enough to not see there tires) from the car in front of u in case someone hits u from behind. It also doesn’t stop at the same distance it’s set at for the speed distance option. The car also doesn’t emergency brake itself when getting super close to the car in front of u. It only gives u warning sounds n shows that on the dash. I’ve already learned that with my young daughter in the backseat. No not reproduced by dealership Yes looked at by dealership Yes warning sounds n an alert on the dash but no action from the car. My car is brand new!!! Auto...
Other 2023 KIA NIRO Problem Areas
Unknown Or Other
13 complaints
Electrical System
10 complaints
Air Bags
6 complaints
Forward Collision Avoidance Warnings
6 complaints
Power Train
5 complaints
Fuelpropulsion System
4 complaints
Engine
3 complaints
Service Brakes
3 complaints
Forward Collision Avoidance Adaptive Cruise Control
2 complaints
Vehicle Speed Control
2 complaints
Seat Belts
1 complaint
Steering
1 complaint
Structurebody
1 complaint
Suspension
1 complaint
Visibilitywiper
1 complaint
Wheels
1 complaint