On December 16, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued an announcement that Jiangsu Yueda Kia Automobile Co., Ltd. filed a record with the State Administration for Market Regulation in accordance with the requirements of the "Regulations on the Administration of the Recall of Defective Automobile Products" and the "Implementation Measures for the Regulations on the Administration of the Recall of Defective Automobile Products". recall plan. It is decided to recall some smart sports cars produced between July 29, 2014 and May 31, 2018, with a total of 130,079 units.
The reason for the recall is that the vehicles within the scope of this recall may have a short circuit inside the hydraulic electronic control unit (HECU) of the braking system, which may cause a fire in the engine compartment in extreme cases, posing a safety hazard. For the above-mentioned defective models, Jiangsu Yueda Kia Automobile Co., Ltd. will replace the high-capacity fuses in the HECE of the recalled vehicles with lower-capacity fuses free of charge. If the fuse is blown due to a short circuit inside the HECU, Jiangsu Yueda Kia Automobile Co., Ltd. will replace the HECU for free regardless of the vehicle's service life and mileage.
It is understood that Kia Sportage is a veteran of domestic joint venture compact SUVs. Both the second-generation and third-generation models have been introduced into the domestic market and are named "Lionpao" and "Smart Run" respectively. Currently Kia's best-selling SUV model.
In 2007, Dongfeng Yueda Kia officially introduced the second-generation Sportage into domestic production, becoming its first SUV model, and named it "Sportage", with a price of 159,800 to 238,800 yuan.
In 2010, Dongfeng Yueda Kia introduced the third-generation Sportage into domestic production, and named it "Smart Run", with a price range of 164,800 to 249,800 yuan. At that time, "Smart Run" and "Sportage" were sold under the same roof, and the positioning of Smart Run was higher than that of Sportage. Sportage consolidated the sinking market, while Smart Run seized the mainstream market and jointly expanded the brand's influence in the SUV market. Both have good market performance. According to the wholesale sales data of passenger cars in the narrow sense of the Passenger Federation, from 2014 to 2018, the sales volume of smart cars was 96,472, 81,522, 78,176, 31,626, and 89,053 respectively, and the cumulative sales volume during the period was 376,849. According to this statistics, this The 130,079 vehicles recalled this time accounted for about 35% of total sales.
In April 2018, the new generation of smart running was launched, with a price range of 119,900 to 139,900 yuan. In April 2021, Dongfeng Yueda Kia released a new brand logo and launched three new models in the domestic market, including the smart running Ace model. In July 2021, the smart running Ace was officially launched. This model, which is only sold in the Chinese market, provides two power systems of 1.5T turbocharged and 2.0T naturally aspirated, and the price is 139,800 to 157,800 yuan. According to the purchases of compulsory traffic insurance for new cars, the cumulative sales of Yueda Kia from January to October 2022 were 78,462 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 41.13%. In terms of specific models, the cumulative sales of Zhipao fell by 53.22% year-on-year to 16,507 units, which is the highest-selling model of Yueda Kia.
Judging from the scope of this model recall, this recall only involves some smart sports car models produced between July 29, 2014 and May 31, 2018, and smart sports cars produced in other years will not be affected。