# Service bulletin TSB\-CHA045

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: 10109754
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-02
- Manufacturer's number: TSB\-CHA045
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-09\-10
- NHTSA component: SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:PADS; SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:PADS

## NHTSA's summary

TSB: GROANING NOISE FROM BRAKE SYSTEM \(SA169\) \- This bulletin provides information related to the replacement of the front brake pads on some 2013MY Sportage \(SL\) vehicles, produced from November 1, 2012 through December 8, 2012, which may exhibit a loud groaning noise coming from the front brake pads.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109754-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10109754-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Brakes, Brake pads

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 KIA SPORTAGE

JSON: [/v1/bulletins/10109754](/v1/bulletins/10109754)

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