DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are telling the house owners of practically 485,000 autos within the U.S. to park them outdoor as a result of they’ll catch fireplace even when the engines have been turned off.

The remembers from the 2 Korean automakers are one other in a protracted string of fireside and engine failure issues which have dogged the businesses for the previous six years.

This time the issue is contamination within the antilock brake management module that may trigger {an electrical} quick.

Affected are sure Kia Sportage SUVs from 2014 by means of 2016, and the 2016 by means of 2018 K900 sedan. Recalled Hyundais embrace sure 2016 by means of 2018 Santa Fe SUVs, 2017 and 2018 Santa Fe Sports activities, the 2019 Santa Fe XL and 2014 and 2015 Tucson SUVs.

The automakers say they’ve 11 reviews of fires within the U.S. however no accidents.

Paperwork posted Tuesday by U.S. security regulators say house owners ought to park the autos outdoors and away from buildings till repairs are made.

Sellers will exchange a fuse. As well as, Hyundai sellers will examine the management modules and exchange them if wanted. Hyundai will mail notification letters beginning April 5, and Kia will ship them March 31.

The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration says house owners can go to www.nhtsa.gov and enter their 17-digit automobile identification quantity to see if their vehicle is being recalled.

Hyundai stated that when it finds a security defect “we act swiftly and effectively to recall the automobile and repair the issue for gratis to affected clients.”

Kia stated there are warning indicators that drivers may see or odor. The antilock brake warning gentle may come on, and so they may odor one thing burning or melting, or see smoke coming from the engine compartment.

Tuesday’s remembers come after U.S. Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration stepped up a sequence of investigations into engine compartment fires which have plagued the Korean automakers.

In December, the company consolidated two investigations from 2017 into a brand new a brand new engineering evaluation protecting greater than 3 million autos from the 2011 by means of 2016 mannequin years. On the time, NHTSA had acquired 161 complaints of engine fires, a few of which occurred in autos that had already been recalled.

The primary recall from the businesses associated to engine failures and fires reaches to September 2015. Since then they’ve issued a minimum of eight extra remembers for a bunch of engine issues, in line with NHTSA paperwork.

The company stated it is evaluating whether or not earlier remembers lined sufficient autos. It additionally will monitor the effectiveness of earlier remembers “in addition to the long-term viability of associated applications and non-safety area actions being performed by Hyundai and Kia.”

On the time, the automakers stated they’ve undertaken quite a few remembers to handle engine points, together with remembers, new engine monitoring know-how and offering prolonged warranties.

Michael Brooks, chief counsel for the nonprofit Heart for Auto Security, stated the remembers Tuesday are completely different from the engine failure downside that prompted a lot of the earlier Hyundai-Kia fireplace remembers. “Though NHTSA has the authority to order a recall and probably a buyback of all affected autos, the separate fireplace defects which have plagued hundreds of thousands of Hyundai autos throughout a number of mannequin years makes this a really tough process,” he stated.

In November of 2020, NHTSA introduced that Kia and Hyundai should pay $137 million in fines and for security enhancements as a result of they moved too slowly to recall greater than 1 million autos with engines that may fail. The fines resolved a earlier probe into the businesses’ conduct involving remembers of a number of fashions relationship to the 2011 mannequin yr.

Kia was to pay $27 million and make investments $16 million in security efficiency measures. One other $27 million fee can be deferred so long as Kia meets security circumstances, NHTSA stated.

Kia denied the U.S. allegations however stated it needed to keep away from a protracted authorized combat.

Information collected by the Heart for Auto Security present greater than 30 U.S. fireplace and engine-related remembers from Hyundai and Kia since 2015. The remembers contain greater than 20 fashions from the 2006 by means of 2021 mannequin years totaling over 8.4 million autos.

Most of the remembers concerned manufacturing defects that stopped oil from flowing by means of the engine block. Many concerned costly engine replacements.

Hyundai and Kia additionally did a U.S. “product enchancment marketing campaign” protecting 3.7 million autos to put in software program that may alert drivers of doable engine failures.

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