Kia EV9 Complaints (2024)

210 consumer complaints on file.

#11615525September 19, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:INSTRUMENT PANEL:SPEEDOMETER/ODOMETER
Our vehicle is a brand-new Kia EV9, and since ownership, we’ve experienced two serious incidents where the instrument cluster/dashboard display has gone completely blank. This occurred once while driving and once immediately after starting the car. The failure is critical because it not only prevents the display of essential information such as speed, but it also disables turn signals, creating an extremely dangerous situation. During the incident that happened while driving, I was unable to signal my intentions to other drivers, significantly increasing the risk of an accident. At present, the only known workaround is to pull over and turn off the vehicle for at least 30 minutes, after which the display typically returns. This issue poses a severe safety concern, and we are eager to have it inspected and properly addressed.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11615508September 19, 2024
LANE DEPARTURE: BLIND SPOT DETECTION, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:INSTRUMENT PANEL:SPEEDOMETER/ODOMETER
The main display panel that shows the speed, turn signal info, blind spot monitoring, and many other things just intermittently dies. According to many posts within online forums, the only known fix is to turn off the vehicle, wait at least 30 minutes and turn the car back on. There does not seem to be a reset option like there is for the radio/map/settings panel. It also does not allow you to see how much fuel (or charge in this case) is left in the vehicle.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11615190September 18, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
The main instrument panel in front of the steering wheel turns off completely. Speed cannot be monitored and turn signals cannot be heard. This has happened two times on back-to-back days. Each time after turning off the car for 30 minutes the issue went away but is very concerning.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11615125September 18, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
I had finished charging the car over night and just turned it on to drive to work. However, the dash display did not fully turn on. It did not display the speed, charge, odometer reading, any form of driver safety information, etc. The display was completely blank except for displaying the gear the car was in, that the parking break was on, and that auto hold was engaged. The infotainment and climate control screens were functional and the vehicle could drive but it was unsafe to drive without the main dash screen (including the speedometer).
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11614953September 16, 2024
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Kia is promoting the use of Digital Keys which rely on your phone and their app. Their app has been down for almost an hour now and it renders EVERY digital key to every owner, useless. While you can unlock your car in some cases, you cannot start your car. No matter what you do, you have to wait for their services to come back online in order for the digital key to work. The digital key also serves as a smart key. Smart keys immobilize cars without the key, to prevent car theft. What’s to say this in the middle of driving, the Kia app goes down again and causes an accident because you no longer can drive your car while on the highway ? I can’t drive anywhere as much as I would like to. I’m stuck at work with no ride and I’m not sure for how long. This is unacceptable.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11614714September 15, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
The vehicle digital instrument cluster turned off and wouldn’t show speed or any other information. The central infotainment screen and the climate control screen worked while driving. The turn signals were not working while this was happening either. Tried to stop the car and start back again within a minute, but the screen never came on. Have pictures taken to prove it. Once we were at our temporary destination, car turned off and when we came back after an hour and restarted the car, the digital instrument cluster came back on and started behaving normally. Can’t reproduce the problem on demand, but happened a few times already.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11614642September 14, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Heads up display and speedometer screen turned off while driving. The car would drive but we could not use signals, know how much charge was left, know how fast we were driving, or any of the information needed to drive the car safely. Eventually returned to normal after leaving the car turned off for hours. This has happened twice.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11614503September 13, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
When the car is turned on the speedometer display is blank. Further, the indicators of the car does not function as well. HVAC and info entertainment display worked as expected.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11614195September 12, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
I went out from my house and got in my vehicle, turned it on, and the instrument cluster screen was not working. I turned off the car and turned it back on and the screen was still not working; I did not have any way to display my speed on the dash. I turned the car off again for a few minutes and then back on and the instrument cluster screen still did not turn on. I had to go pick up my child from school and so I had to use a 3rd party GPS app to monitor speed and the screen never came back on. The next day I checked and the main gauge cluster screen was working again.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11613745September 10, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Main display is black. Unable to see speedometer, battery status, turning signals, etc. Car is 72% charged but display will not turn on. It appears to be happening to several EV9 in these past weeks. Possible software update issues.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11613442September 9, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
The screen directly in front of the driver stops displaying all information except the gear selection part of the screen and Auto Hold displays. No speedometer or anything. This has happened to us twice now since purchasing the vehicle in March. The dealership can't reproduce it so they can't diagnosis the problem to solve it. I've sent them 2 videos of this happening on different days. After shutting the car off for an hour and turning it back on it seems to correct itself.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11613340September 8, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING
Infotainment went out, to include speedometer while driving did not come back on till the following day.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11613327September 8, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
For the second time in a month when we went to drive the speedometer display did not appear.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11613016September 6, 2024
LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
the main screen display showing speed, milage, camera etc randomly goes black and its not working. This affects working of turn signals, cameras on the side of the vehicle that aid in changing lanes and its overall a safety issue.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11612521September 4, 2024
SEATS, SEAT BELTS
Drivers seat moving diagonally back and forth left to right when your make left and right turns. The force the car makes, forces the drivers seat to shift. Its a huge safety concern, everyone that has an EV9, a crash can result in the driver being killed because if the seat moves left to right forward and back under heavy or even light g force, imagine during a crash. The seatbelt is on the seat, so your whole body would go flying into the windshield because the seat can't even stay in position with light or heavy movements. Several people have reported identical experiences that only indicate the problem is not just happening to one or a few cars. Kia of America refused to replace my seat and refused at the local kia service center in Daytona beach, FL acknowledge or be shown the replication of the safety hazard. Several others on Facebook and forums are trying to take to service centers, but with it being a complex matter of not just the seat bolts needing to be tightened and something above the seat frame causing the issue, "master technicians" have no idea what they are looking at.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11612143September 2, 2024
POWER TRAIN, SERVICE BRAKES
The vehicle unexpectedly accelerates in multiple situations, all related to “iDrive” (one pedal driving), either failing to engage, or unexpectedly disengaging. It almost hit something while parking, and it started accelerating into oncoming traffic from a stop sign. I’ve driven the car for 60 miles. I suspect there are other similar scenarios that I haven’t discovered. Steps to reproduce grouped by scenario: 1. Engage iDrive with the left steering wheel paddle. Remove foot from brake. Car does not move. Switch to R then D. Remove foot from brake. Car accelerates. 2. Engage iDrive. Turn off car. Turn it back on. Shift to D. Car accelerates. 3. Press paddle to engage iDrive, and bring vehicle to a stop. Remove foot from pedal. Sometimes it stays stopped. Sometimes it beeps instead of engaging iDrive, then accelerates later. Expected behavior: After engaging one pedal driving with the left steering wheel paddle, the vehicle should never accelerate from a stop unless the gas pedal has been pressed. The driver should have to press the right steering wheel paddle to disengage it. The left paddle should reliably engage one pedal mode.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11608723August 15, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
When I entered and tried the vehicle, I was presented with a trip information display on the instrument cluster in another language(assume Korean) with all values at zero. After turning the car on, the instrument cluster was blank except for the gear indicator and a red parking brake icon. The heads up display was completely blank as well. The car would shift into all other gears and drive. Turn signals did work, but the indicators were absent and did not make any sound. There was also no ready indication or chime signaling that the car was on and ready to drive. The surround view camera system also did not turn off automatically after driving away. Usually the system turns off after 7mph, but there was no speed indication on the blank instrument cluster. I was definitely going much faster. There were no warnings indicating anything wrong with the vehicle. After being parked and off for about 30 minutes, I returned to check the car and everything worked as normal. Attached to the report is a picture of the first image on the instrument cluster before going almost completely blank, when the problem first occurred.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11595818June 21, 2024
SEAT BELTS
The third row seatbelt is malfunctioning doesn’t work at all. I have 4 kids and that seat can’t be used at all so I don’t risk my kid safety. Contacted Kia and they were pushing at least 4 weeks
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11593111June 7, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, WHEELS
First the vehicle shakes at highway speeds. It has a substantial steering wheel vibration. I had to get two separate wheel balances done to attempt to resolve the issue. Can’t really say if the issue is fully resolved now because both the 12v battery and high voltage battery have had issues or failures leading to a completely dead unusable vehicle. Car has been out of working order for 13 days now with no eta on when the issue will be resolved. All of this happened with less than 30 days of owning the vehicle.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11592798June 6, 2024
STEERING
In brand new 2024 Kia EV9, the steering wheel shakes at or above speeds of 65mph. Replicated symptoms in all regen modes, as well as with regenerative braking turned off. Replicated symptoms with lane assist and highway driving assist both on and off. Issue presents itself on various different conditions of road surfaces. Brought vehicle to dealership service department and they stated that alignment was perfect and there was no unusual tire wear. Service advisor went on test drive with me and witnessed the symptoms but disregarded it as possible uneven road surfaces and said they wouldn't know how to go about fixing it. The service invoice states "nothing is wrong with this vehicle" which is completely untrue. Tire balance was not checked. Confirmed with other owners of both the EV9 and EV6 that this is an ongoing issue with no known fix action or open TSB from Kia. Issues are not present below 60mph.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0

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