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2001 Kia Sportage air bags problems

Owners reported air bags problems in 21 complaints for the 2001 Kia Sportage, 6% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
21 6% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
18 and 0
Injuries and deaths
15 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 18 crashes, 15 injuries.

What owners wrote

I was stopped behind two cars waiting to make a left hand turn. I was rearended by a man going approximately 50MPH at impact, I was slammed in to the person in front of me, and she hit the person in front of her knocking that SUV in to on coming traffic. All four cars were totalled and everyone's airbags went off except for mine. My face took out the visor and hit the steering wheel. The front seats reclined at impact as well.

January 2003 CrashInjury

On april 24, 2005 columbus ohio had poor weather conditions ;snow and icy rain. I was traveling on s.r. 104 exiting on high st. I applied pressure to the brakes and fish tailed my 2001 kia sportage. I hit the guard rail and the car rolled over. The front bumper had hit the guard rail and was actually off the car by the time I uprighted the vehicle again. The kia sportage is equipped with 3 airbags;the front driver front passenger and a driver knee airbag, none of which deployed.

Reported at 82,000 miles, April 2005 CrashInjury

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