Kia Motor Soul owners have reported a total of 7,412 problems for their cars built in the 16 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Kia Motor Soul. The 2014 Kia Motor Soul cars have the most problems reported (1,214 problems).
The following chart shows the 34 most common problems for Kia Motor Soul cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (3,367 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's equipment (655 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Kia Motor Soul of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Soul model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Kia Motor Soul model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Kia Motor Soul is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
| Model Year | Problems Reported |
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| 2025 Soul | |
| 2024 Soul | |
| 2023 Soul | |
| 2022 Soul | |
| 2021 Soul | |
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| 2019 Soul | |
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| 2014 Soul | |
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| 2010 Soul |
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