Kia Motor Sportage owners have reported a total of 6,662 problems for their cars built in the 30 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 Sportage. The 1998 Kia Motor Sportage cars have the most problems reported (561 problems).
The following chart shows the 33 most common problems for Kia Motor Sportage cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (1,946 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's electrical system (652 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Kia Motor Sportage 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 Sportage 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 Sportage 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.
| Sportage Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 54 | 62,910 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 44 | 66,249 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 186 | 118,369 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 99 | 68,839 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 214 | 73,960 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 523 | 109,157 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 181 | 47,206 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 188 | 44,066 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 148 | 33,846 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 436 | 43,473 | 13 | |
| 2012 | 450 | 41,880 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 258 | 44,992 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 27 | 12,486 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 113 | 36,002 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 134 | 40,923 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 114 | 46,291 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 171 | 43,250 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 91 | 24,729 | 21 | |
| 2002 | 317 | 46,901 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 354 | 58,973 | 25 | |
| 2000 | 463 | 66,837 | 26 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Kia Motor Sportage is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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