2006 Kia Sedona problems
Owners have filed 579 complaints with NHTSA about the 2006 Kia Sedona. Suspension is the most reported problem area, at 15% of complaints. Next are air bags (14%) and electrical system (14%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 579 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Suspension 15% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 18 and 14
- Injuries and deaths
- 22 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 77,000 miles 462 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 76 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 43 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 45 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 72 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 44 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 63 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 34 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 44 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 21 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 10 |
| 200k+ miles | 10 |
What the data shows
Of the 462 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 77,000 miles. For suspension specifically, the median reported mileage is about 114,000 miles (72 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 18 complaints mention a crash; 14 complaints mention a fire; 22 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2006 ranks 2nd most-complained-about out of 18 model years of the Kia Sedona with enough data (248 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 7 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
New 2006, a few months after he bought the van, someone hit me in the rear on the stop light and the airbags never activated, the repair shop said it had no rear air bags, that is why do not active system. 2014 light "airbag" is lit and remains so since then, the dealer charges a fortune only to diagnose, 2014 I had an freeway accident, to prevent a truck hit me flywheel onto the shoulder, hitting the fence right boundedness and ending with the wall head-on collision in central divider ...
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 kia sedona. While driving 15 MPH, the vehicle struck a diesel truck. The air bags failed to deploy. The front driver side of the vehicle was damaged. The driver's head went through the windshield. The passenger had glass in her head and was unconscious. The vehicle was destroyed. There was snow on the ground before the crash occurred. A police report was filed. The current and failure mileages were 28,000.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 kia sedona. The contact stated that the sliding doors would not stay open and would close without warning. This failure has caused bruises on four different occasions. The dealer was unable to duplicate the failure. The dealer lubricated the latches on the door, but this did not remedy the failure. The door continued to close without warning. The manufacturer stated that the doors would close if the windows were down. The current mileage is 7,000 and failure mileage was 300.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 kia sedona. While the vehicle was parked, the rear passenger and driver side doors failed to open. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 111,000.
One of the control arms rusted completely and broke while driving. Because of this we have inspected the other control arms and they were all rusted to the point that it made the car unsafe to drive and they have been replaced. Now the car will not start periodically. I have researched and many other owner of the same make and model are having this same issue due to the anti theft device.