Kia Soul: Steering

Affects Kia Soul · 2014 — about 994 vehicles.

The hazard

On certain vehicles, insufficient thread-locking adhesive may have been applied to the steering gear pinion plug at time of assembly. This could allow the plug to loosen and potentially separate from the steering gear assembly, causing a loss of steering which could result in a crash causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will install a new pinion plug with properly applied thread-locking adhesive. Note: This recall is superseded by recall 2017514.

What to do

Contact your dealer; the remedy details were not included in the filing.

Critical — crash/injury risk now High — injury risk; see remedy Moderate — fix at next service Low — minor / informational