2024 Kia Forte Problems & Owner Complaints
Age-normalised, this year draws ~8.0 complaints per year on the road — ranking 13 of 14 Kia Forte years we track (1 = most complaints per year).
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What owners report
Air Bags is the most-reported problem area on the 2024 Kia Forte, cited in 7 of 24 filed complaints (29%).
Engine is next (7 complaints, 29%), followed by Electrical System (6), Power Train (3), Exterior Lighting (2).
Across all complaints, 5 report a crash, 1 report injuries.
The most safety-critical cluster is Air Bags: 2 crash, 1 injury report(s).
Complaints by vehicle system
Owner complaints filed with the U.S. NHTSA for the 2024 Kia Forte, grouped by the vehicle system each cites. A single complaint can name more than one system, so the group totals can add up to more than 24.
Unknown Or Other 9 2 crash
“My car suddenly accelerated while I was pulling into my canopy carport causing me to crash into an old basketball goal and then the wall of my cottage. When this happened I was slowly pulling in to park when the car suddenly accelerated on its own and kept moving forward despite me pressing the brake. The RPM gauge continued to rev after the impact and the only way that I was able to make it stop was by putting the car into park and pushing the button to turn the car off. No warning lights illuminated on my dash. I have video of the incident from my security camera in my backyard.”
NHTSA complaint #11720595, 2026 · crash
“Hello, I'm trying to fix my front radar calibration right now but the dealership appointments is months away and I cannot wait that long and it's a hazard to be driving on the road with this being unfixed. Also, please have a vietnamese translator on call when/if you contact me by phone. Thanks!”
NHTSA complaint #11594550, 2024 · crash
“I purchased this brand new in 2024 and about 5 months ago it started to just loose power. It almost caused me to be hit several times and the car just won’t go it looses all power and you can press the gas and it won’t go but eventually will start going again. It’s very dangerous luckily I haven’t had a wreck with me and my Infant in the car and I’ve been able to move out of the way of others.”
NHTSA complaint #11691108, 2025
Air Bags 7 2 crash 1 injury
“Date of Incident: [XXX] Location: [XXX] To Whom It May Concern, I am submitting this letter to report a potential airbag malfunction involving my 2024 Kia Forte GT. On [XXX], I was the driver and sole occupant of my vehicle when I was T-boned on the driver’s side while traveling [XXX] on [XXX] at the intersection of [XXX] . The collision was severe enough to spin my vehicle and resulted in significant damage to the driver-side door and frame. Despite the force and nature of the crash, none of the airbags in my vehicle deployed—including side airbags that should have been triggered by the…”
NHTSA complaint #11671432, 2025 · crash · 1 injury(ies)
“The lane assist stopped working properly and pulled me into the guardrail”
NHTSA complaint #11583959, 2024 · crash
“Coolant is burning and going into the oil in the engine. Occupancy indicator is malfunctioning causing a drastic amount of liability for death”
NHTSA complaint #11750128, 2026
Engine 7
“Coolant is burning and going into the oil in the engine. Occupancy indicator is malfunctioning causing a drastic amount of liability for death”
NHTSA complaint #11750128, 2026
“My car would not go when i gave it gas on a major highway with mu 3 children in the back seat. We almost got into a wreck.”
NHTSA complaint #11731156, 2026
“This malfunction started in August of 2025 within 12 months of buying this new vehicle. A airbag sensor was replaced, then a national bbb case found the same malfunction only this time it includes the whole safty system failure. I gave the manufacturer a year and they have not corrected the malfunction. I am forced to drive a unsafe car *if I get hit my airbags will NOT DEPLOY*”
NHTSA complaint #11753181, 2025
Electrical System 6
“Coolant is burning and going into the oil in the engine. Occupancy indicator is malfunctioning causing a drastic amount of liability for death”
NHTSA complaint #11750128, 2026
“Exposed electric wires, airbag system failure codes, breaks non resistance in functional limitation of human safety. Voltage malfunction involves hazardous crash impact results”
NHTSA complaint #11722834, 2026
“Dealership refused to fix my safety system unint failure alont with proof of voltage malfunction”
NHTSA complaint #11720720, 2025
Power Train 3 1 crash
“The contact owns a 2024 Kia Forte GT. The contact stated that while driving approximately 25 MPH on an off-ramp and making a right turn, the lane assist feature had malfunctioned, causing the vehicle to steer and crash into the guard rail. During the incident, the passenger side of the vehicle was damaged along with the guard rail. No injuries were reported. A police report was taken at the scene, and the vehicle was driven away. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. Previously, while driving, the vehicle had experienced transmission f…”
NHTSA complaint #11684783, 2025 · crash
“While the vehicle was approximately ten months old with approximately 11K miles, it was continuously not functioning properly and would not start/accelerate. My 2024 KIA Forte, which was purchased new from a KIA dealership, has continuously failed to function properly. It had a water pump replaced after failing to be operated for more than a week and has since continued to fail - this time for not starting at all, not accelerating properly, and losing all power while driving (switching off completely) on at least two separate occasions. The dealership stated that I should drive the vehicle and…”
NHTSA complaint #11688947, 2025
“Car has been in several times for repair clutch assembly clutch plate, flywheel transmission, and the problem continues with shifting it does not want to go into gear it grinds even with the clutch fully to the floor. It will not go into first gear, not going to reverse intermittently and sometimes it will go from 1st to 5th third gear is missing sometimes first gear is missing this can happen at any given time shifting putting it into reverse sometimes it will not go into gear. It will just grind gears or taking off from a dead stop. It will not go into first gear. It will automatically go in…”
NHTSA complaint #11687028, 2025
Exterior Lighting 2
“AIRBAG SYSTEM UNIT, AIRBAG SENSOR, VOLTAGE CRONIC MALFUNCTIONING POWER SUPPLY”
NHTSA complaint #11720535, 2025
“Headlights shut off while driving at night. The right turn signal was on and was in a right hand turn when the car hit a small dip. There was the sound that you hear when you turn on the key when the car hit the dip and the healights went off. After pulling off the road and turning on the hazard lights, tried turning the headlights off then back on several times. The parking lights seem to come on then went off. Noticed that the information screen reset and was at the setup screen. Turned the car off then restarted the car and the headlights turned on. On the freeway the tone you hear…”
NHTSA complaint #11626195, 2024
Lane Departure 2 2 crash
“The contact owns a 2024 Kia Forte GT. The contact stated that while driving approximately 25 MPH on an off-ramp and making a right turn, the lane assist feature had malfunctioned, causing the vehicle to steer and crash into the guard rail. During the incident, the passenger side of the vehicle was damaged along with the guard rail. No injuries were reported. A police report was taken at the scene, and the vehicle was driven away. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. Previously, while driving, the vehicle had experienced transmission f…”
NHTSA complaint #11684783, 2025 · crash
“The lane assist stopped working properly and pulled me into the guardrail”
NHTSA complaint #11583959, 2024 · crash
Service Brakes 2
“Exposed electric wires, airbag system failure codes, breaks non resistance in functional limitation of human safety. Voltage malfunction involves hazardous crash impact results”
NHTSA complaint #11722834, 2026
“This malfunction started in August of 2025 within 12 months of buying this new vehicle. A airbag sensor was replaced, then a national bbb case found the same malfunction only this time it includes the whole safty system failure. I gave the manufacturer a year and they have not corrected the malfunction. I am forced to drive a unsafe car *if I get hit my airbags will NOT DEPLOY*”
NHTSA complaint #11753181, 2025
Forward Collision Avoidance 1 1 crash
“Hello, I'm trying to fix my front radar calibration right now but the dealership appointments is months away and I cannot wait that long and it's a hazard to be driving on the road with this being unfixed. Also, please have a vietnamese translator on call when/if you contact me by phone. Thanks!”
NHTSA complaint #11594550, 2024 · crash
Fuel/Propulsion System 1
“While the vehicle was approximately ten months old with approximately 11K miles, it was continuously not functioning properly and would not start/accelerate. My 2024 KIA Forte, which was purchased new from a KIA dealership, has continuously failed to function properly. It had a water pump replaced after failing to be operated for more than a week and has since continued to fail - this time for not starting at all, not accelerating properly, and losing all power while driving (switching off completely) on at least two separate occasions. The dealership stated that I should drive the vehicle and…”
NHTSA complaint #11688947, 2025
Seat Belts 1 1 crash 1 injury
“Date of Incident: [XXX] Location: [XXX] To Whom It May Concern, I am submitting this letter to report a potential airbag malfunction involving my 2024 Kia Forte GT. On [XXX], I was the driver and sole occupant of my vehicle when I was T-boned on the driver’s side while traveling [XXX] on [XXX] at the intersection of [XXX] . The collision was severe enough to spin my vehicle and resulted in significant damage to the driver-side door and frame. Despite the force and nature of the crash, none of the airbags in my vehicle deployed—including side airbags that should have been triggered by the…”
NHTSA complaint #11671432, 2025 · crash · 1 injury(ies)
Steering 1 1 crash
“The lane assist stopped working properly and pulled me into the guardrail”
NHTSA complaint #11583959, 2024 · crash
Structure 1
“In order for the drivers door to shut, you have to nearly slam it shut. If you don’t, you’re still able to lock the vehicle which results and trapping the door. This means that if you attempt to unlock the vehicle, it will not let you you have to force the door open with your bodyweight. I am driving a loaner vehicle from a Kia dealership and this happened to me several times it’s quite disturbing especially if something has been left in the car and you don’t have access to it like my medication. The vehicle locks will still lock even though the doors are not shut this causes the doors to j…”
NHTSA complaint #11575154, 2024
Suspension 1
Visibility/Wiper 1
“Dealership refused to fix my safety system unint failure alont with proof of voltage malfunction”
NHTSA complaint #11720720, 2025
How we read this (methodology)
How to read this: raw complaint totals are not a clean reliability score — a model year with more cars sold, or simply more years on the road, accumulates more complaints regardless of how good it is. So this page leans on two signals that are not distorted by sales volume: the share of complaints falling on each vehicle system (the breakdown above) and NHTSA's own crash / fire / injury / death flags. When we compare model years of the same model, we normalise by years on the road (complaints ÷ vehicle age) rather than comparing raw totals. Age-normalised, the 2024 Kia Forte draws about 8.0 complaints per year on the road, ranking 13 of 14 among the Kia Forte model years we have ingested (1 = most complaints per year on road).
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