# Service bulletin TSB\-SST033

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: 10109631
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-02
- Manufacturer's number: TSB\-SST033
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-04\-15
- NHTSA component: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HOOD:LATCH; STRUCTURE:BODY:HOOD

## NHTSA's summary

TSB: SPECIAL SERVICE TOOL FOR HOOD RELEASE LEVER REMOVAL \- This bulletin provides information related to the introduction of a new Special Service Tool \(SST\) \(A\) developed to prevent the hood release lever pivot point \(B\) from being damaged when removing the hood release lever. Follow the instructions included in this bulletin to properly remove the hood release lever using the new SST.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109631-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109631-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Body and frame, Latches and locks, Hood latch

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 KIA CADENZA
- 2011 to 2014 KIA OPTIMA
- 2011 to 2014 KIA SORENTO
- 2010 to 2014 KIA SOUL
- 2011 to 2014 KIA SPORTAGE

JSON: [/v1/bulletins/10109631](/v1/bulletins/10109631)

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