Complaint volume
203 consumer-submitted complaints are matched to this model year. Treat the count as a research signal, then read the actual summaries for repeated symptoms.
Complaint records
2024 Kia Telluride Complaints
203 consumer-submitted complaints on record for the 2024 Kia Telluride, grouped by component category.
203 Total complaints
5 Crash reports
2 Fire reports
3 Injury reports
Complaint data reflects consumer-submitted reports. A complaint is not proof
of a defect, recall, or manufacturer fault. Enriched severity fields come
from official bulk records when the complaint can be matched by ODI number.
Buyer interpretation
How to use these complaints before buying
Complaint records are most useful when they turn into inspection points, seller questions, and comparison checks against nearby model years.
Pattern to inspect
The most common categories are unknown or other, visibility/wiper, structure. Use those categories as a test-drive checklist instead of judging the vehicle from the total count alone.
Severity flags
Enriched records include 5 crash reports, 2 fire reports, 3 injury reports, and 0 fatality reports. These fields come from complaint records and should be read in context.
Mileage clue
Mileage is available on 21 complaints, with an average reported failure mileage of 11,545 miles. Compare that with the mileage on the listing.
Questions to ask the seller
- Have you had any problems related to unknown or other, visibility/wiper, structure?
- Can I see recent maintenance and repair records?
- Has the vehicle ever been towed, involved in a crash, or repaired for the same issue twice?
- Can we also check the recall record for this 2024 Kia Telluride?
Used-car checklist
Use these complaints before the test drive.
Build a buyer checklist to turn these issues into questions and inspection points.
2024 Kia Telluride
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How severe are the 2024 Kia Telluride complaints?
5 Crash
2 Fire
3 Injury
0 Fatality
5 Towed
1 Medical attention
What are the most common 2024 Kia Telluride complaint categories?
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 36
VISIBILITY/WIPER 22
STRUCTURE 21
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 19
ENGINE 9
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 7
POWER TRAIN 5
UNKNOWN OR OTHER,VISIBILITY/WIPER 5
SEAT BELTS 4
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,LANE DEPARTURE,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 3
203 total complaints on record
Latest complaints
| Date | Component | Summary | Severity | Mileage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2024 | ENGINE | When in snow mode the Vehicle basically shuts all power down when going up an incline from a complete stop. You can’t accelerate at all the gas pedal just goes flat and feels like you’ve lost control of the vehicle completely. This is the third time this has happened. This time The vehicle behind me was inches away from slamming into the back of me. This is a huge safety issue. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | VISIBILITY/WIPER | After owning this brand new car for less than 2 months, I've had 2 rocks hit my windshield and resulting in cracks. Those rocks were not big and I wouldn't have expected those to result in actual windshield cracks. After looking this up, it seems that this is a common issues with Kia Telluride and that the quality of the windshields is not great. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | SERVICE BRAKES | VEHICLE has 650 miles now. It was leased from Kia. I noticed the brakes fading when at a long stop light or stop sign. Vehicle would start to roll/creep forward and brake pedal would drop slightly. The longer the stop light the more this would happen. When this happened as I was parking I left the vehicle and called the Kia help number and had the vehicle transported to Kia dealership. This was 10JAN2024. The dealership notified me that the could find no problem. I picked the vehicle up and drove home. The same problem occurred and I had the vehicle transported to the dealership. They replaced the brake master cylinder and ABS module. They notified me it was repaired. When I check the brakes the pedal still slowly went down. I refused to take the vehicle and left it at the dealership. The vehicle had been at the dealership for over 30 days before they notified me it was repaired. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | Windshield cracked 12 days after purchase | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | SEAT BELTS | Incident 1: Seatbelt was fastened as I returned from picking a child up from school. As we turned into our driveway my seatbelt unlatched unexpectedly. In addition, none of the warnings sounded that typically notify you when someone has taken off their seatbelt prematurely. Incident 2: I was pulling onto a main road from a side road when my seatbelt unlatched. None of the safety warning sounds came on. In both situations there was nothing near my seatbelt that could have accidentally depressed the button (and if there had been there should have been a seatbelt warning). Both incidents occurred close to or as I was making a right turn at slow speed. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER,LANE DEPARTURE | Vehicle has 6k miles. Upon starting for the evening commute, dashboard is blank screen - will not give speedometer, odometer readings or fuel levels. Other lights on gearshifter not working. GPS not reading correctly. Blind spot detection not functioning. Can get the screen to display the brightness indicator, but that refuses to leave the display, even when car turned off - assumedly a drain on the battery. This left us unable to identify our speed or how much fuel we had. The dealership indicated that this problem was seen in 2022 Tellurides and was typically fixed by a reset + system update. The dealership did fix the problem, but not sure of what the root cause is. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2024 | SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | The contact owns a 2024 Kia Telluride. The contact stated that while driving at 5 MPH, the contact enabled the snow traction feature. The contact depressed the accelerator pedal and the vehicle lost motive power. The contact stated that the failure had occurred twice. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 4,201. | Crash: No Fire: No | 4,201 |
| Jan 2024 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | I purchased this vehicle brand new and has the panoramic screen. It blacks out and when that happens I am not able to use any of my safety features. I have taken it back to Kia service 3 times and it still happens. I don't know what to do. I have heard some other owners have the same problems. I have a video. It started the first week I bought it on 7/24/2023. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2024 | VISIBILITY/WIPER | Windshield crack appeared spontaneously while driving at 20mph in parking lot. No known impact with rock or other projectile, I had been driving the car for 3 hours at that point. Crack is approximately 10 inches long, from passenger side lower edge toward center of windshield. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2024 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | The panoramic instrument cluster would not display any information. Since the entire instrument cluster is electronic, no information on vehicle speed, rpms, gas, battery, etc. could be shown. Vehicle would still start fine and drive fine, but vital driving information could not be displayed | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2024 | POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | The contact owns a 2024 Kia Telluride. The contact stated while driving approximately 40 MPH in snow mode, the vehicle failed to accelerate as needed. The vehicle was started but was unable to drive as needed for approximately 30 minutes. The contact stated that after turning off and restarting the vehicle, the vehicle returned to normal operation. The contact pulled over to the side of the road and had the vehicle towed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer however, the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 1,748. | Crash: No Fire: No Towed | 1,748 |
| Jan 2024 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER,VISIBILITY/WIPER | Within the first 1000 miles my windshield chipped. Now at 8000 miles, there is another crack. Seems to be a common issue with this vehicle that the windshield is soft and not durable. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Dec 2023 | ENGINE | I purchased my new Kia Telluride on 10/28. On 11/10 I was driving on the highway when I heard a rattling noise from the engine and realized I was losing speed, with an unresponsive gas pedal. I was in a construction zone and managed to find a safe place to pull over - but it was an extremely dangerous situation. As I sat on the side of the highway, I realized the steering wheel had locked and all electricals had also gone down. There were only 300 miles on the car at the time. The diagnosis is that the “engine seized” but there is no known cause - likely a manufacturer’s defect. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Dec 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | Kia connect safety services are not available in Massachusetts due to Kia not complying with the right to repair law. When in an accident emergency services are not called and this poses a big safety threat as there is a delay to services arriving to help in the case of an accident. Kia should be forced to separate the telematics service information from key emergency services capabilities so that this car and every Kia in Massachusetts has the equivalent safety capabilites to others | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Dec 2023 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | The contact owns a 2024 Kia Telluride. The contact stated that while driving with the vehicle in Snow Mode, the vehicle failed to accelerate as needed. The contact switched to Sport Mode for the vehicle to respond and accelerate as needed. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact stated that while his wife was driving and switching to Snow Mode, the accelerator pedal was depressed, and depressed to the floorboard but the vehicle failed to accelerate. The driver switched to Sport Mode to drive the vehicle as needed. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 5,800. The VIN was not available. | Crash: No Fire: No | 5,800 |
| Dec 2023 | VISIBILITY,UNKNOWN OR OTHER | The windsheild easily cracks. Less than 1000 miles and it cracked. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Dec 2023 | POWER TRAIN | We bought a 2024 Kia Telluride and had it literally 2 weeks long with about 684 miles. My husband and I were driving on a major highway and suddenly we hear a noise and engine line pops up on screen. Car proceeds to literally shut off, the wheel locked up, and we barely made it to shoulder of highway. This was huge safety issue, we had cars honking and speeding by us at 70+. We called the Kia roadside assistance who didn’t get a tow truck there till 3 hours later. We don’t have anything paper wise yet from the service department . They called and said engine was seized and needing replacement. We are very concerned about getting new engine that could potentially do this again. | Crash: No Fire: No | 684 |
| Dec 2023 | VISIBILITY,VISIBILITY/WIPER | Within a week of taking delivery of my car after purchase the lower right corner of my windshield developed a 16" crack. To my knowledge, my windshield had not been struck by any object and I had only driven it 300 miles since picking it up. The crack is a safety issue as it limits or inhibits visibility through the windshield. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Nov 2023 | SEAT BELTS | The bottom bolt that attaches the second row driver side seatbelt to the side of the car came loose and fell out when a passenger tried to buckle up. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Nov 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER,VISIBILITY | Car was traveling down the road at 45 miles an hour. The windshield cracked under normal driving conditions. Living in Iowa this would fall under the class action. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Oct 2023 | VISIBILITY/WIPER | Brand new 2024 Kia Telluride. Came outside this morning to see a nice crack across the drivers side of the windshield happen before my eyes when I turned on defrost and windshield wipers for the rain. I see this was a common problem with 2023 Kia's. Also after speaking to Service dept (Gay Kia, Dickinson, TX). I truly get the feeling this is still an issue. Biggest down side to this, is they tell me they cant even get me a 2024 telluride windshield right now. if you rub your finger across windshield you definitely can feel a extremely small chip feeling in the glass. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Oct 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER,VISIBILITY | I was driving down the highway at 65mph and my 2024 Kia Telluride sunroof violently imploded. I pulled over thinking I was shot at by a gun, but there was no evidence that I was hit by something. It felt like an explosion next to my face. Very loud! I have 490 miles on this vehicle. I have called Kia dealership and they are going to investigate and call me back. No warnings went off in the vehicle and I was not harmed but I do have anxiety now. Worried it will happen again once fixed. I honestly felt like this was a safety issue and so I went online only to find this has happened to others all over. Not sure how this has happened to so many others and there is no recalls. Please help me understand. This was very scary. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Sep 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | UNKNOWN - We have discovered a substantial amount of water coming up from the flooring behind the passenger seat under the second row of our 2024 KIA Telluride purchased 2 months ago. Took the dealership this morning and after 4 hours attempting to diagnose where the water was coming from, they were unsuccessful. They checked AC lines, making sure nothing was disconnected or clogged, checked seals on doors, etc. They got the vehicle lifted to look underneath and were able to remove a panel to expose a rubber gasket that they removed under the second row passenger flooring and water gushed out! Additionally, the vehicle has begun to smell of mildew/mold and I am concerned for my young families safety, as I have three children under the age of 5 that spend a significant part of their day in the vehicle between drop-off and pick-up at school, to and from extra curricular activities, errands, etc. The dealership is attempting to obtain a loaner vehicle large enough for our three car seats so that they can have the vehicle for a day or two to officially diagnose the issue, but I am devastated that the significant amount of water we’ve been removing from the car has caused mold in the cabin and will cause burnout of wiring/electronics in the future. We are a military family, this is our first brand new vehicle and the primary vehicle for our large family. We purchased the vehicle in July and it had less than 3,000 miles when the issue was reported. It’s terrifying to think that this issue could potentially cost us thousands on the devaluation of our vehicle in addition to the risk to our family’s health and safety. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Sep 2023 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | WINOW SATIN TRIM - Rust spots showing on the satin trim around vehicle windows upon receipt of vehicle. Contacted original dealership that sold us the vehicle about the issue immediately, no assistance was given. Took the vehicle to another dealership this morning to notify them of the issue, have it officially documented, and request a warranty request be submitted. The vehicle had never been washed or detailed prior to the appearance of the spots. Unfortunately, the vehicle arrived from the dealership with the rust-looking defect. After some quick research, this seems to be an ongoing issue with some KIAs, regardless of model. I have owned this vehicle for 2 months and notified the same dealership that it was purchased from immediately upon receipt and no assistance has been given, just a suggestion to clean it. The spots have not lessened. I would like my brand new car purchase to look like a new vehicle, sans rust-like defects on satin trim. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Sep 2023 | SUSPENSION,WHEELS | Vehicle at 700 miles is having suspension issues causing bumping and shaking during the ride making it unsafe. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |