Other driver assistance problem on the 2016 Kia Sorento
1 crash 1 fire 2 of the 9 reports 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 6 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.
When other driver assistance problem gets reported
There are 9 reports of other driver assistance problem on the 2016 Kia Sorento, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 35th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 23,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 a fire are 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 $250–$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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2013 at 115,000 miles.
By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 30; the 2016 has 9. 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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
2016 kia sorrento purchased on june 30, 2015. Time line 6/30/2015- purchased vehicle at fredy kia in houston, texas. 7/3/15- started having issues with indicator lights/brought in car to dealership 7/11/15- vehicle would not shift gears and was unmovable. I had to get it towed to dealership. Numerous indicator lights were on. 7/11/15-7/14/15- vehicle was in the shop at fredy kia in houston texas. I had to rent a car. 7/14/15- picked vehicle up and one indicator light still came on (showed the customer service manager) 7/16/15- all indicator lights, including check engine lights started coming on, the air conditioner began blowing hot air and car shut off again. Car was towed to westside kia for service.
The kia sorento 2016 my family and were driving and the car went into "limp mode" on a busy street. We nearly has an accident. It was towed to the dealer. The dealer did not know why it occurred. They said they secured the wiring and returned the car to us. Approximately a week later the car went into "limp mode" again on another busy road again putting us in danger of having an accident. It was towed to the dealer. They said that they then replaced the throttle. We are not confident it will not occur again.
Traction control - our vehicle has sustained two incidents involving the traction control system. The first incident involved the traction control light on the dash illuminated intermittently while the vehicle was moving. The vehicle was turned off then back on the light would go off. The dealership evaluated the problem but could not duplicate the incident. Several months later, the vehicle was in motion at approximately 25-30 MPH, in a residential neighborhood, in a moderate right hand turn, and the traction light came on during the turn. The vehicle became uncontrollable when the vehicle steered towards the right and forced us to strike a curb causing steering and wheel damage. The vehicle was take again to the dealership and the manufacturer was contacted. We were told the steering sensor had failed but they could not determine whether this occurred as a result of the collision or if it failed and caused the collision. The vehicle has been at the kia dealership for seven days, the engineering department responded to attempt to duplicate the problem and download data from the vehicle's computer but we have not heard the status…
Also reported on the 2016 Kia Sorento
Other engine problem
Excessive oil consumption
Other body or interior problem
Head gasket failure
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 9 reports 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 9 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other driver assistance problem happen on the 2016 Kia Sorento?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other driver assistance problem on the 2016 Kia Sorento?
9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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