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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
KNAFK4A64E5••••••2014 Kia FORTE
That is about average for the 2014 Kia FORTE — 6 complaints per build across 75 builds.
5on this build
418on the model
75builds in total
1involved a crash
Most reportedAir Bags 3Engine 2Steering 1Electrical System 1
What owners of this build wrote
SteeringcrashMar 2014
Turned onto a fairly narrow street with cars parked on both sides; I was driving down the middle of street until I passed all parked cars; attempted to move back into my lane and steering wheel froze and started jerking; I was headed toward a stop sign pole; I jumped the curb…
Air BagsNov 2022
The contact owns a 2014 Kia Forte. The contact stated while driving 45-50 MPH, the engine was misfiring and there was dark smoke coming from the exhaust pipe. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact was able to continue driving; however, the failure had been…
EngineFeb 2015
I have had two accidents ,the first time when I went to try and start my car up and it would not start up. Kia replace my fuel pump,believing that was the issue. The second they told me they could not diagnosis a problem so it was nothing that they could do
Air BagsJun 2021
The contact owns a 2014 Kia Forte. The contact stated while driving at 55 MPH, the air bags warning light illuminated. The dealer was made aware of the failure but the vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate…
Air BagsMay 2014
The contact owns a 2014 kia forte. The contact stated that the air bag warning light had remained illuminated from two previous accidents in 2014 and 2015 in which neither air bags had deployed. The contact believed that a defective clockspring caused the air bags to not deploy…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN KNAFK4A64E5093711 · decoded Sep 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.