Component Inspection

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2013 Kia Sportage and 2012 Kia Sportage. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

Check SMARTRA.
1. IGN "ON" & Engine "OFF".
2. Neutralize SMARTRA with scantool.
3. Neutralize PCM and Register transponder key by scantool.
  NOTE: Pin code is required to Neutralize SMARTRA & PCM and to Register transponder key
4. Are Neutralizing and Registering Key completed normally?
  YES
  - Check connectors for looseness, poor connection, bending, corrosion, contamination, deterioration, damage on the PCM or SMARTRA or It has not erased this DTC in previous repair. Repair or replace as necessary and then go to "VERIFICATION OF VEHICLE REPAIR " procedure.
  NO
  - Substitute with a known-good SMARTRA and perform the Key teaching.

If the problem is corrected, replace SMARTRA and then go to "VERIFICATION OF VEHICLE REPAIR " procedure.

NOTE: If the SMARTRA3 is only replaced using an existing key and PCM, after replacing the "virgin" or "neutral" SMARTRA3, reteaching is possible by key Learning mode of GDS. In this case, all existing key must be retaught.

If SMATRA3 is replaced to another one (used at other vehicle), it can only recycle its neutralized first before replacing.