Owner complaint 11766404: KIA CARNIVAL 2023

Owner complaint, unverified, from NHTSA Owner Complaints

Published by NHTSA: Sep 23, 2026
Manufacturer: Kia America, Inc.
NHTSA ID: 11766404
Applies to, as stated by NHTSA: KIA CARNIVAL 2023
Component, as stated by NHTSA: FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM

Text of the owner complaint

Fuel door actuator is electrically tied to cabin door locks with no manual release and frequently fails to open after repeatedly cycling cabin door locks. Issue is not due to bad batteries or other vehicle related electrical faults. Manufacturer has confirmed defect is present in all Kia models from 2020 until now with no after warranty support.

Date of incident: 2026-09-22

View original source on NHTSA.gov

NHTSA reuses some ID numbers across record types. If its page lists more than one record, this one is the owner complaint dated Sep 23, 2026.

For the 2022 Kia Telluride

Ignored

Relevance of 11% is under one half, so the notice is ignored whatever the other figures say.

Vehicle relevance: 11%
Attention: 44%
Interrupt probability: 41%

Importance to this owner: 0.7 of 4, minor
Vehicle area the notice is about: Engine

This owner complaint does not appear to warrant attention for this vehicle. Owner complaints are unverified reports.

Decided by jev-1.13.0 in 144 ms from 1,554 input tokens. Jev returns these figures and nothing else. It gives no reasons, and none are written for it here. The figures describe how relevant the notice is, not the condition of any vehicle.

Checked by code against NHTSA's fields

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YesNHTSA names this make
NoNHTSA names this model
n/aNHTSA lists model year 2022 for this model

The same notice, every vehicle

Relevance	Attention	Interrupt	State
11%	44%	41%	Ignored
1%	7%	11%	Ignored
1%	7%	13%	Ignored
1%	8%	13%	Ignored
1%	13%	14%	Ignored
1%	7%	12%	Ignored
1%	9%	13%	Ignored
1%	8%	14%	Ignored
1%	6%	12%	Ignored
1%	13%	17%	Ignored
1%	6%	11%	Ignored
1%	9%	15%	Ignored
1%	9%	12%	Ignored
1%	8%	12%	Ignored
1%	10%	15%	Ignored
1%	7%	13%	Ignored

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