Kia/Hyundai is bottom of the line. Buy domestic union made products if you want better quality for a fraction more money.
You mean like Ford? https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...rd-too-many-problems-need-suggestions.322054/Buy domestic union made products if you want better quality for a fraction more money.
My Hyundai GF4D Gamma 1.6L has sludge issues and I know that it had been ran on an extended OCI below 3 quarts of oil just before I began taking care of it. I have been trying to nurse it back into the best shape it can be in but 90,000 miles of abuse with questionable maintenance really makes me worry especially when I see horror stories like this one.
These engines are poster children for NOT doing an extended OCI. Even Hyundai's severe service interval of 3750 is becoming too much for my Hyundai to handle because the P0326 knock sensor turns the CEL on unless/until I change the oil around that mileage every OCI.
Content in the link is from few days ago, not 2015
Kia/Hyundai is bottom of the line. Buy domestic union made products if you want better quality for a fraction more money.
1st post seems to be from 2015.
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My mistake.No it is not.
The poster joined that board in 2015 the post is from Nov 25 2020 - 6:44 PM (currently 5d (days) ago)
Debris left in engine during manufacturing process, leading to engine bearing failures.Hyundai, Kia fined for delaying US engine failure recalls
Hyundai and Kia will spend $137 million on fines and safety improvements because they moved too slowly to recall over 1 million U.S. vehicles with engines that can failabcnews.go.com
My wife knows three people with KIA Soul cars that have blown engines. The odds of this being just normal attrition have to he astronomically small. One is her boss.
He I should be BE (phone typo) - Well yes, not normal - something has gone terribly wrong.You mean like.. a statistical anomaly?
My wife knows three people with KIA Soul cars that have blown engines. The odds of this being just normal attrition have to he astronomically small. One is her boss.
^^This.So this guy went 7k miles without checking his oil, with an incomplete history of oil changes, drove it low on oil, and now has experienced engine failure. Shocker. In other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and you never start a land war in Asia.
Luckily for him, Kia is still covering the warranty replacement even without proper documentation of oil changes. And to think that there have been multiple threads on here about how Hyun/Kia will do everything they can to get out of warranty repair...
I can tell you some need a dad to ride them about it until they make it a routine^^This.
I've never understood car owners who don't regularly check their engine oil.