# Service bulletin VPI1802\_QA

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10143474
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-08\-06
- Manufacturer's number: VPI1802\_QA
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-07\-25
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE; POWER TRAIN

## NHTSA's summary

Q \& A \- This document is the Q \& A for the new Product Improvement Campaign to provide information regarding a software update to the Engine Control Unit \(ECU\) to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10143474-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10143474-0001.pdf)

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## Components

Electrical system, Engine, Equipment and accessories, Labels and manuals, Transmission and driveline, Software

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2018 KIA OPTIMA
- 2015 to 2018 KIA SORENTO
- 2014 to 2018 KIA SPORTAGE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PI1803\_TSB\_R6](/bulletins/10199451.md), 2021-08-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN \- PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN PI1803\_TSB\_R6: KNOCK SENSOR DETECTION SYSTEM \- ECU \- LOGIC IMPROVEMENT \(PI1803\) \- This bulletin has been revised to include additional information. This bulletin provides information related to a software update to the Engine Control Unit \(ECU\) to install the Knock Sensor Detection System \(KSDS\) in order to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage.
- [TSB\_TRA059](/bulletins/10183610.md), 2020-12-04, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN: HCU/TCU UPGRADE \- FOR 100 MESH SOLENOID EQUIPPED HYBRID TRANSMISSIONS \-This bulletin provides information related to a software upgrade of the Hybrid Control Unit \(HCU\) and the Transmission Control Unit \(TCU\) of some 2011\-2016 MY Optima Hybrid \(TF HEV\) vehicles after replacement of the transmission with improved 100 mesh solonoid filters has taken place. To apply the improved logic, the HCU/TCU should be reprogrammed using the GDS/KDS download, as described in this bulletin.
- [PI1802\_TSB\_R8](/bulletins/10168840.md), 2019-12-09, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. TSB \- Product Improvement Campaign: KNOCK SENSOR DETECTION SYSTEM \- ECU LOGIC IMPROVEMENT \(PI1802\) \- This bulletin has been revised to include additional information. This bulletin provides information related to a software update to the Engine Control Unit \(ECU\) to install the Knock Sensor Detection System \(KSDS\) in order to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage.
- [TSBENG206](/bulletins/10163455.md), 2019-08-07, Service bulletin: ENGINE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. TSB: 1.6T GDI ULEV MIL ON LOGIC IMPROVEMENT FOR P0128 \- This bulletin provides the procedure to improve the logic of the ECU \(Electronic Control Unit\) on some 2016\-2017MY Optima \(JFa\) 1.6T GDI ULEV DCT vehicles, produced from September 28, 2015 through September 03, 2016, which exhibit a MIL \(Malfunction Indicator Lamp\) illuminated with DTC P0128, even though there are no system faults.
- [TSB\_PI1803\_R2](/bulletins/10160837.md), 2019-06-04, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN \- KNOCK SENSOR DETECTION SYSTEM \- ECU LOGIC IMPROVEMENT \(PI1803\) \- This bulletin provides information related to a software update to the Engine Control Unit \(ECU\) to install the Knock Sensor Detection System \(KSDS\) in order to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage.
- [PI1803\_OWN\#2\_OPT](/bulletins/10159232.md), 2019-04-30, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. OWNER LETTER: Dear Kia Optima Owner: Kia Motors America, Inc. is conducting an important Product Improvement Campaign to perform a software update on all 2011\-2013 MY Optima vehicles equipped with 2.4L Gasoline Direct Injection \("GDI"\) and 2.0L Turbocharged GDI \("T\-GDI"\) engines, and some 2014 MY Optima vehicles equipped with 2.4L GDI and 2.0L T\-GDI engines to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage. The update will be done free of charge and will only involve the addition of newly developed computer software for the Engine Control Unit \("ECU"\).
- [PI1802WX\_TSB\_R5](/bulletins/10159231.md), 2019-04-30, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. TSB: ENGINE REPLACEMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR DTC P1326 \(PI1802W/X\) \- This bulletin provides information related to the Technical Service Bulletin previously published in July 2018 \(PI1802, Rev 6, 01/31/2019\) titled "Knock Sensor Detection System \- ECU Logic Improvement". Specifically, this bulletin provides instructions on which procedures to follow if, after installation of the KSDS, any one of the subject vehicles below returns to the dealer with Diagnostic Trouble Code \("DTC"\), P1326.
- [PI1802WX\_TSB\_R4](/bulletins/10159230.md), 2019-04-30, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. TSB: ENGINE REPLACEMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR DTC P1326 \(PI1802W/X\) \- This bulletin provides information related to the Technical Service Bulletin previously published in July 2018 \(PI1802, Rev 6, 01/31/2019\) titled "Knock Sensor Detection System \- ECU Logic Improvement". Specifically, this bulletin provides instructions on which procedures to follow if, after installation of the KSDS, any one of the subject vehicles below returns to the dealer with Diagnostic Trouble Code \("DTC"\), P1326.
- [VPI1803\_DP](/bulletins/10147424.md), 2018-11-13, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN \(PI1803\) \- DEALER PRINCIPAL LETTER \- Attention: All Kia Dealer Principals, Kia is conducting a Product Improvement Campaign to perform a software update to the Engine Control Unit \(ECU\) to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage.
- [VPI1802A1\_OWNER](/bulletins/10145159.md), 2018-10-09, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE. PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN \(PI1802A1\) UPDATE \- OWNER LETTER \- Dear Kia Optima Owner: As we previously notified you, Kia Motors America, Inc. is conducting an important Product Improvement Campaign to perform a software update on some 2014 MY Optima vehicles equipped with 2.4L Gasoline Direct Injection \(?GDI?\) engines, and all 2015 MY Optima vehicles equipped with 2.4L GDI and 2.0L Turbocharged GDI \(?T\-GDI?\) engines to protect the engine from excessive connecting rod bearing damage by utilizing a Knock Sensor Detection System \(?KSDS?\). Our records show that the KSDS software was recently installed in your vehicle and we want to thank you for your quick action. Since then, Kia has become aware that the KSDS software version installed in your vehicle has an error and requires the installation of a new corrected software.

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