Serious riskSerious risk
EU Safety Gate · Report-2007-41
KIA · Passenger car – cooling fan blades to passenger cars
The product poses risk of injuries because there is a possibility of breakage of the cooling fan blades. The broken blades could destroy important parts of the vehicle’s engine, like the cooler, leading to damage to the engine while the car is in motion. This could then be a reason for a road accident.
- Published
- 19 October 2007
- Notifying authority
- Greece
- Catalog checked
- 30 July 2026
Check the authority measure and original alert.
Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other. Category of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 1054/07
- Model
- Passengers’ car model Sportage (type JA)
Classification
- Category
- Motor vehicles
- Risk type
- Injuries
- Country of origin
- Republic of Korea
Product description
The recall concerns vehicles built from May 2001 to December 2002.