{"id":6440,"date":"2015-01-27T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:23:42","slug":"2014-kia-forte-fire-risk-due-to-electrical-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6440","title":{"rendered":"2014 Kia Forte &#8211; Fire Risk Due To Electrical Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of approximately 90 thousand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-KIA\/FORTE\/2014\/\">2014 Kia Forte<\/a> cars will be contacted by the manufacturer to return to their dealership to repair a cooling fan thermal issue.  According to  reports on the NHTSA website, under certain circumstances, a cooling fan resistor could overheat and melt creating the risk of a fire.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Owners of vehicles produced from December 5, 2012 to January 27, 2014 will have the cooling fan resistor and multi-fuse unit replaced<\/li>\n<li>Owners of vehicles produced from January 28, 2014 to April 17, 2014 will have only the multi-fuse unit replaced.<\/li>\n<li>Owners of vehicles with the 1.8L engine will have the engine control unit software updated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Owners wanting more information about the problem are asked to contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia&#8217;s number for this recall is SC113 and the NHTSA campaign number is 15V-015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of approximately 90 thousand 2014 Kia Forte cars will be contacted by the manufacturer to return to their dealership to repair a cooling fan thermal issue. According to reports on the NHTSA website, under certain circumstances, a cooling fan resistor could overheat and melt creating the risk of a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,73,1317],"tags":[1104,1479,1432],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-lemon-law","category-kia","category-lemon-alert","tag-electrical-fire","tag-safety-defect","tag-software-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}