Posted on 03/14/2021 9:14:36 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Kia says if you have one of the company’s 380,000 recalled vehicles, you should park it outside.
That’s because of a potential engine compartment fire risk.
Some Sportage SUVs made between 2017 and 2021, as well as Cadenza sedans from 2017 through 2019, can have a short circuit in the hydraulic electronic brake control unit. Excessive current can increase fire risk, The Associated Press reported.
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I went back to my dealership several years ago because of some recall...The fuel gauge may not be accurate...The letter advised me to keep the half tank of gas at all times...
The technician checked my car...There was nothing wrong with the fuel gauge of my car...
“fuel gauge may not be accurate”
I’ve owned couple of $100 cars where the fuel gauge didn’t work. Just keep track of mileage if that gauge works. It was fine except for my dirtbag room mate at the time siphoning a full tank of gas for his vehicle and maybe a friend’s vehicle.
This is not the first time they’ve had a recall like this.
KIA = Killed In Action
In Tampa FL all KIAs come with Latina drivers as standard equipment. They drive like scurrying rats caught in a trap. STOP sign? What STOP sign?
Park it if ya can stop it.
Friend bought a brand new KIA and several weeks later the gear shift jammed; service dept. said she was doing something wrong. Finally had it towed to the dealer and ripped the service manager big time.
My Dodge Durango has water intrusion into engine bay from a leaking cowl seal. Chemicals from windshield washer fluid accelerates corrosion in the wires the water from your windshield is dumped on. A third problem is the soy component of insulation rodents like to chew on introduced a couple of decades ago to ‘fight climate change’. Just a nick in the insulation that touches the body or frame is enough to make it too expensive to diagnose.
So recently, when an older Durango burst into flames when doing cookies in Vancouver, I knew immediately that a short from the wiring erupted from the computers in the engine bay and fuse box by driver’s feet. Fortunately the driver lived to tell the story.
I have a similar ‘intermittent’ problem, a local dealer and an independent shop both failed to diagnose; but they reset the computer to clear the engine light and sent me home with an outrageous bill.
The problem was a leaking brake master cylinder dripping on a wireharness connector.
Solution of the recall?
Fix the hydrolic leak?
No.
*Move the harness connector out of the way of the drip and tag the fix with a blue tag for quick recognition.
Not a problem with my cars, there’s no need for electricity to be anywhere the near the braking system on them.
And install a couple of smaller fuses.
Problem remains but fire risk removed.
No no no
KIA = killed in Automobile
IMHO, Ford Motor Co.’s biggest problem:
Failure to call on the carpet, the YAHOO’s among their *zone* field service rep.’s.
There are good people who know their stuff.
But there are TOO MANY YAHOO’s who do not, and cause for both Ford and the dealers, a lot of trouble, for basically failing to fix problems, early.
I do not know for certain, anymore, but for decades, the HQ for these service guys, was along Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI, southeast from the old Ford Motor Co. airfield and test track area next to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Complex (aka Edison Institute).
In the 1980’s, I circumvented the service bureaucracy, by driving straight to one of the Ford Service Zones, elsewhere in Michigan, and POUNDING on the door (it is typically locked, to keep out frustrated Ford vehicle owners).
Some fellow emerged and actually took down a lot of detailed notes re the EXTREMELY POOR WORKMANSHIP of my ‘new car.’
With that service event, plus finding by chance, a lady near the Ford Motor Co. HQ, whose husband worked at the Ford HQ, and her *new car* had been made immediately after mine, with the same but WELL INSTALLED parts AND PAINT . . .
I wrote to the Ford Motor Co. and literally (*literally*) gave the brass grief. (I am leaving out a lot of details, here, but I really did give them grief -— it’s a thing, that large bureaucratic organizations are, let’s say, ruffled by.)
And, they replied, via one of the brass, who gave me a blanket order request (supported by: “If anybody refuses, have them call me.”) to repair my “new car.”
I took that order request, to another Ford Dealer in another town. Typically, that Ford Dealer’s service dept. refused.
I said, “May I borrow your phone?” And, I called *the brass* . . . and handed the phone to the service mgr. Then I went outside for a stroll around the dealer’s lot.
About 10 minutes later, the service mgr. showed up, “Sir, we will fix your car.”
It was a wonderful moment, thank Him.
IMPORTANT CORRECTION: The poor workmanship occurred during transit of my “new car.”
The dealer and the dealer’s insurance agency, plus the transit (hired by Ford) and the transit insurance agency, plus Ford Motor Co. . . . were all bickering over the screwup.
The errors did *NOT* occur on the Ford assembly plant floor.
I did that on my Jeep years ago. Dealerships mechanics HATE doing recalls. My bud owns a used car dealership and knows this firsthand.
If there’s a recall, they STALL or screw you up on the appointments. They dont care mostly because they lose money fixing something that should not be fixed in the first place, esp. if it’s new-ish..
We have the same scenario in Albuquerque.
500 vehicle fires every day.
WRONG
LOL! Dealers get paid to fix recalls.
I had a ‘66 MGB and the speedometer oscillated like a metronome. I would average the low and high numbers of the range to estimate my actual speed. Every now and then I’d drive by one of those radar billboards that shows you how fast you’re actually going, and I was (pleasantly) surprised at how close to accurate my technique turned out to be.
Not here in my area. They are being paid the SAME wage as before. It depends on the type of dealership. There is a reason why former dealership managers make their own used car dealerships, which includes a close bud of mine.
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