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Brakes · 1 owner report

Other brake problem on the 2023 Kia Forte

1 crash 1 of the 1 report for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $300–$1,800
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 35th

When other brake problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other brake problem on the 2023 Kia Forte. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 35th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 28 miles, and latest on the 2016 at 120,000 miles.

By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 35; the 2023 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 2010 Kia Forte other brake problem 66k
  2. 2011 Kia Forte other brake problem 92k
  3. 2012 Kia Forte other brake problem 66k
  4. 2013 Kia Forte other brake problem 62k
  5. 2014 Kia Forte other brake problem 95k
  6. 2015 Kia Forte other brake problem 40k
  7. 2016 Kia Forte other brake problem 118k
  8. 2017 Kia Forte other brake problem 100k
  9. 2018 Kia Forte other brake problem 28
  10. 2019 Kia Forte other brake problem 63k
  11. 2020 Kia Forte other brake problem 18k
  12. 2021 Kia Forte other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  13. 2022 Kia Forte other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  14. 2023 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  15. 2024 Kia Forte other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2023 Kia Forte

Other engine problem

7 reports median 55k

Other powertrain problem

7 reports median 36k

Other steering problem

7 reports median 80

Lane keep or steering assist fault

5 reports median 35k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed