Kia is recalling 319,436 vehicles to repair a trunk latch that may crack, stopping it from being opened from the within, the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration has introduced.
The recalled fashions embrace the 2016-2017 Rio, the 2016-2018 Optima, and the 2017 and 2018 Optima Hybrid and Optima Plug-in hybrid autos.
In line with a recall discover posted Wednesday by NHTSA, the bottom of the vehicles’ trunk latch can crack, stopping the opening of the trunk from the within. Federal auto security laws require that trunks might be opened from the within. Kia spokesman James Bell stated no accidents or deaths have been related to the recall.
“An individual contained in the trunk compartment could change into trapped, rising their danger of harm,” wrote NHTSA recall division chief Alex Ansley in a letter addressed to J.S. (Jurassic) Park, the chief security workplace at Kia.
Automobile house owners have till Oct. 19 to take their vehicles to Kia dealerships, the place the faulty trunk latch half shall be changed freed from cost.
