# Service bulletin TSB\-ELE125

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10109809
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-02
- Manufacturer's number: TSB\-ELE125
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-01\-04
- NHTSA component: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

TSB: OUTSIDE REAR COMBINATION LED LAMP ASSEMBLY REPLACEMENT \- This bulletin provides the procedure to replace the outside rear combination lamp\(s\) \(LED type\) on some 2014\-2015MY Forte Koup \(YD\) vehicles, produced from October 14, 2013 to July 1, 2014, which may experience an intermittently inoperative LED portion of the outside rear combination lamp due to a poor solder joint on the printed circuit board.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10109809-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10109809-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Electrical system, Lighting, Tail lights

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2015 KIA FORTE KOUP

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB BOD132](/bulletins/10091942.md), 2017-02-16, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS. ON SOME 2014\-2015 MY FORTE VEHICLES, CUSTOMERS MAY COMPLAIN ABOUT WATER DROPLETS FORMING INSIDE THE REAR TAIL LAMP LENSES FOLLOWING A RAINSTORM OR AFTER WASHING THEIR VEHICLE. THESE WATER DROPLETS ARE MORE VISIBLE AT NIGHT AND THE QUANTITY OF WATER PRESENT IS MORE THAN JUST A THIN FILM OF CONDENSATION WHICH MAY NOT EASILY EVAPORATE. THIS CONCERN IS CAUSED BY A GAP BETWEEN THE TAIL LAMP HOUSING GASKET AND VEHICLE BODY WHICH ALLOWS WATER TO INFILTRATE INTO THE TAIL LAMP. TO RESOLVE THIS CONCERN, ORDER NEW FOAM GASKETS AND INSTALL THEM BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT TAIL LAMPS AS REQUIRED AND THE BODY OF THE VEHICLE, AS OUTLINED IN THE TSB.
- [TSBBOD132](/bulletins/10089463.md), 2017-01-25, Service bulletin: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS; STRUCTURE; EQUIPMENT. TSB: WATER LEAK/CONDENSATION IN REAR COMBINATION TAIL LAMP\(S\) \- ON SOME 2014\~2015MY FORTE \(YD\) VEHICLES, CUSTOMERS MAY COMPLAIN ABOUT WATER DROPLETS FORMING INSIDE THE REAR TAIL LAMP LENSES FOLLOWING A RAINSTORM OR AFTER WASHING THEIR VEHICLE. THESE WATER DROPLETS ARE MORE VISIBLE AT NIGHT AND THE QUANTITY OF WATER PRESENT IS MORE THAN JUST A THIN FILM OF CONDENSATION WHICH MAY NOT EASILY EVAPORATE. THIS CONCERN IS CAUSED BY A GAP BETWEEN THE TAIL LAMP HOUSING GASKET AND VEHICLE BODY WHICH ALLOWS WATER TO INFILTRATE INTO THE TAIL LAMP. TO RESOLVE THIS CONCERN, ORDER NEW FOAM GASKETS AND INSTALL THEM BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT TAIL LAMPS AS REQUIRED AND THE BODY OF THE VEHICLE.

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