# Service bulletin PS297

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: 10109732
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-02
- Manufacturer's number: PS297
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-02\-13
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:REAR:SHOCK ABSORBER; SUSPENSION:REAR

## NHTSA's summary

PIT STOP: SQUEAKING NOISE FROM REAR OF VEHICLE \- When addressing a customer complaint related to a squeaking sound emanating from the rear of the vehicle, and the noise can be isolated to the rear suspension, check the right and left rear shock towers as the most likely source of the noise.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109732-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109732-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Suspension, Shocks and struts

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2014 KIA OPTIMA

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PS414](/bulletins/10092151.md), 2017-02-17, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT. PITSTOP: DIFFICULTY ASSEMBLING STRUT BEARING/INSULATOR \- ON SOME OPTIMA VEHICLES, WHEN REPLACING THE STRUT INSULATOR OR STRUT BEARING WITH NEW PARTS YOU MAY ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTY INSTALLING THE NEW STRUT BEARING INTO PLACE ON THE INSULATOR. THIS CONDITION IS DUE TO A CHANGE IN THE DESIGN OF THE STRUT BEARING \(A\) WHICH RESULTS IN TIGHTER TOLERANCES BETWEEN THE BEARING AND INSULATOR. REFER TO THE PROCEDURE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- [PS297](/bulletins/10060147.md), 2016-03-16, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; SUSPENSION:REAR:SHOCK ABSORBER. SUMMARY TO BE PROVIDED ON A FUTURE DATE.

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