# Service bulletin PS205

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10043657
- Published by NHTSA: 2012\-04\-18
- Manufacturer's number: PS205
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:GEAR POSITION INDICATION \(PRNDL\); POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:LEVER AND LINKAGE:COLUMN SHIFT

## NHTSA's summary

KIA: OPTIMA DASHBOARD SHIFTER POSITION INDICATOR. \*KB

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Automatic transmission

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 KIA OPTIMA

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSBTRA059\_R4](/bulletins/10136505.md), 2018-05-14, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\); POWER TRAIN. TSB \- HCU/TCU UPGRADE ? FOR 100MESH SOLENOID \- EQUIPPED HYBRID TRANSMISSIONS \- This bulletin has been revised to include additional information. This bulletin provides information related to a software upgrade of the Hybrid Control Unit \(HCU\) and the Transmission Control Unit \(TCU\) of some 2011\-2016MY Optima Hybrid \(TF HEV\) after replacement of the transmission with improved 100 mesh solenoids has taken place.
- [TSB\-FUE025](/bulletins/10116824.md), 2017-08-31, Service bulletin: ENGINE; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). TSB: SERVICE ACTION: ECM UPGRADE \- MIL ON WITH DTC P0300 AND/OR P0301, P0302, P0303 AND P0304 \(SA151\) \- This bulletin provides information related to the ECM software upgrade for some 2011\-2012MY Optima \(TF\), produced from July 16 ,2010 to January 11, 2012, Optima \(QF\), produced from August 8, 2011 to January 23, 2012 and 2011\-2012MY Sportage \(SL\), produced from September 3, 2010 to January 7, 2012 vehicles, equipped with a 2.0L Turbo engine, which may experience a malfunction indicator lamp illuminated \(MIL\) with the ECM \(Electronic Control Module\) system\-related DTCs; P0300 and/or P0301, P0302, P0303 and P0304.To prevent and/or correct this condition, the ECM should be reprogrammed using the GDS download as described in this bulletin.
- [TSBTRA051R1](/bulletins/10089761.md), 2017-01-27, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). TSB: 6 SPD A/T SOLENOID REPLACEMENT – MULTIPLE DTCS \- THIS BULLETIN PROVIDES INFORMATION RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT OF VARIOUS SHIFT SOLENOIDS ON 6\-SPEED AUTOMATIC TRANSAXLES WITH DTCS P0741, P0743, P0748, P0753, P0758, P0763, P0768, P0773, P1778 AND P2709. REPLACE THE SOLENOIDS IF CURRENT OR HISTORY CODES ARE PRESENT; DO NOT REPLACE THE TRANSAXLE. TO REDUCE VEHICLE REPAIR TIME, THIS PROCEDURE CAN BE PERFORMED WITH THE TRANSAXLE INSTALLED IN THE VEHICLE. REFER TO KGIS FOR SOLENOID PACK REMOVAL AND REINSTALLATION PROCEDURES FOR THE SPECIFIC YEAR AND MODEL OF THE VEHICLE.

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