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2025 Kia Carnival: raw data

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vehicle2025 / kia / carnival
known issues7 clusters (reviewed 2026-08-01)
complaints124 on file (2024-07-23 → 2026-09-11)
recalls1
investigations0
fars0 occupant deaths, crash years 2010-2024 (vpic)
indexedyes
licenseCC BY 4.0 (derived)

Known Issues clusters all years →

Power sliding door fails to detect obstructionUNKNOWN OR OTHER5 complaints2025-01 → 2026-05kia-carnival-2025-sliding-door-obstruction
  • 11737299 Passenger sliding door failed to detect my son and closed completely on his arm. The doors will push the kids and don’t detect even adults at times. He now has a buckle fracture that they are concerned is a full fracture in both bone on his forearm
  • 11681167 Side passenger doors do not stop when something is in the way when the automatic door close feature is used. We tried holding a hot dog and large piece of celery in the way of the door as it closed. The sensor did not detect either item and broke them both in two
  • 11723970 Today, my young daughter pressed the button on the inside of the door to close the sliding door. Her hand was still in the way and the door did not stop. Part of her hand was completely closed in the door and she screamed and cried in excruciating pain
Driver attention warning triggers excessivelyLANE DEPARTURE4 complaints2025-05 → 2026-04kia-carnival-2025-driver-attention-alert
  • 11685204 The 2025 Kia Carnivals have a safety systems that prompts the driver to, "Take and coffee break". The system cannot be turned off and is extremely distracting. The system prompts the driver even if the adaptive cruise control is turned off
  • 11734940 The system repeatedly issues “take a break” or inattentive driver warnings during normal, attentive driving conditions. These alerts are overly sensitive, frequent, and intrusive
  • 11660327 The "consider taking a break" feature pops up every 5 minutes when I am driving and it is beyond distracting and leads me to believe I have something wrong with my vehicle. There is no way to turn it off
Unexpected seat movement and seat belt failureSEATS4 complaints2025-04 → 2026-07kia-carnival-2025-seat-seatbelt-malfunction
  • 11731853 The component of the vehicle that malfunction was the front passenger seat. The driver came to a stop at an intersection and the front passenger seat started auto reclining. The seat was reclining into a life, flat position, almost
  • 11657777 while folding the second-row seatback to access the third row, as the seatback folded forward, it did so with excessive and unexpected speed, causing the seatbelt housing to swing forward and strike my wife, [XXX] , in the head with great force
  • 11748893 The contact owns a 2025 Kia Carnival. The contact stated that while parked in a bank drive-thru, the contact's son mentioned that his seat belt was stuck. The contact parked the vehicle in a parking spot and attempted to remove the seat belt
12V battery drain requiring jump-startELECTRICAL SYSTEM60 complaints2024-07 → 2026-03kia-carnival-2025-12v-battery-drain
  • 11606009 This car was purchased new on [XXX]. In the ~30 or so days since purchase, the battery has died on 4 occasions and would not turn over, requiring it to be jump started, and began just 3 days after purchase on [XXX] and as recent as [XXX]
  • 11607244 Parasitic battery drain leaves car dead and unusable no matter how many jumps/replacement batteries. It happens overnight. This is WIDESPREAD - there are entire Facebook and Reddit groups with thousands of people with the issue
  • 11607740 After a week of owning the car the battery died over night. Was jumped by roadside and died later that day and jumped again. After the 2nd jump, the AC and air bags didn’t work. Then the check engine light came on
Sudden loss of acceleration while drivingENGINE11 complaints2025-04 → 2026-05kia-carnival-2025-loss-of-acceleration
  • 11666909 On 6-9-25, for the second time in the 10 weeks that I have owned my new 2025 KIA Carnival it has failed to accelerate beyond 30 MPH after pulling away from a traffic light
  • 11740406 For the third time the 2025 KIA Carnival Prestige I own lost power while driving on the interstate! Without warning, the vehicle would no longer respond to the accelerator pedal. No matter what I did I could not get the vehicle to accelerate past 35 mph
  • 11667760 While I was driving on a highway, my vehicles "check engine" and "batter" lights were illuminated and a warning came across the car screen that said something along the lines of "Battery Management System Failure" and then "Powertrain failure"
Dashboard and lighting blackout while drivingELECTRICAL SYSTEM8 complaints2024-11 → 2026-06kia-carnival-2025-dash-lighting-blackout
  • 11627633 While driving at highway speeds the exterior and interior lighting/electrial system shut down completely. My headlights shut off, as well as all electrical/lighting inside the vehicle for approximately 1 minute before turning back on
  • 11747231 The center LCD screen intermittently flickers and then goes completely blank while I am driving. When this happens, the rearview camera image is also lost while the vehicle is in Reverse, leaving the display completely black
  • 11724822 While backing out of a parking spot and utilizing the cameras to watch my surroundings, the infotainment screen became unresponsive and began flashing between visual noise similar to 'snow' on old broadcast television
Fuel odor and SC368 fuel pipe recall concernsFUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM4 complaints2026-04 → 2026-07kia-carnival-2025-fuel-odor-sc368-recall
  • 11750451 The vehicle's passenger cabin continually has a strong odor smell after longer drives or after the vehicle idles for a longer duration in time. The vehicle was brought to Horne, KIA in Gilbert, AZ twice in June for same
  • 11732656 Kia has a recall (Campaign SC 368) on a fuel pipe that may be defective causing a gas leak leading to fire. I called the dealer I bought the vehicle from to request an inspection of the part
  • 11737633 The contact owns a 2025 Kia Carnival. The contact received the recall letter for NHTSA Campaign Number: 26V320000 ( NA) The local dealer was contacted but the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired

NHTSA complaints (summary) all years →

countearliest_datelatest_datecrash_flaggedfire_flaggedtop_components
1242024-07-232026-09-1100ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:82; UNKNOWN OR OTHER:19; ENGINE:15; FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM:8; EXTERIOR LIGHTING:5

Recalls all years →

campaign_numberreport_received_datecomponentsummaryconsequenceremedy
26V23200010/04/2026FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGSKia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2022-2026 Carnival vehicles. Fuel may leak at the pipe connection between the fuel pipe and fuel rail.A fuel leak increases the risk of a fire.Dealers will inspect and tighten, or replace the fuel pipe as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 2, 2026. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC368. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 24, 2026.

Investigations all years →

none listed

FARS occupant deaths all years →

crash_yearsoccupant_deathsmatch_typevpic_recovered
2010-20240vpic0

FARS counts every occupant death in a fatal crash, whatever the cause — it does not mean the vehicle was at fault or defective. Counts are not adjusted for how many of each vehicle are on the road.

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Derived data is CC BY 4.0. Link back to the page you used. Text and BibTeX below.

Wrench.Pro (2026). 2025 Kia Carnival vehicle data [dataset]. https://www.wrench.pro/data/vehicles/2025/kia/carnival
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  author = {Wrench.Pro},
  title = {Wrench.Pro vehicle data: 2025 Kia Carnival},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.wrench.pro/data/vehicles/2025/kia/carnival}},
  note = {Derived from NHTSA public records. CC BY 4.0.}
}

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