Kia Optima: Problems & Recalls by Model Year
Owners have filed 5,236 NHTSA complaints across the 6 Optima model years we track. The 2013 model year has the most on file.
Data: NHTSA · Retrieved September 7, 2026
Complaints on file by model year
Click a year for the full breakdown
Older model years have had more time to accumulate complaints — compare adjacent years, not endpoints.
Model year pages