Kia voluntary emissions service campaign

[K20FA5]

We received a letter from Kia back in mid December about a software update for the ECM for 2017-2022 cars with the 2.4L GDI engine. It said that there was a new program to update calibrations that may cause the engine to fail emissions testing. My daughter contacted a local dealer and had it installed 2 1/2 weeks ago.

I've been running Valvoline Restore and Protect in this car for a while now. That combined with a few piston soaks, has really slowed down the oil burning in this car. I check the oil for her every Monday morning and normally fill it up for the week for her. For the last 2 Monday mornings, I haven't had to add any oil to the car. The oil level has stayed exactly 1/2 way between the dots on the dipstick. I don't think that the emissions programming would have caused it to stop burning oil, but it is a nice touch that it seems to have stopped it for some reason???

 

[rstsco]

This is interesting. I wonder if there's any relationship between the reprogramming and the relaxing of EPA regulations/fines on automobile manufacturers. I would love to see Honda come out with an upgrade where auto start/stop and VCM were defaulted to Off instead of having to push buttons or select different drive modes to disable these from being active every startup.


Good the hear her oil consumption seems to have slowed to a trickle.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Is it possible the programming cut back on how much fuel it's using? Less fuel in oil means less oil burnt?

 

[K20FA5]

Still happy to report that I haven’t had to add any oil to this car since this reprogramming was done. Not sure what happened, but I’m very happy!

 

[The Critic]

The emissions related software change probably altered injector timing and VVT functionality at cold start. These two things can affect oil consumption over time.

Honda did something similar with the 08-11 Accords, look up S/B #11-049.

 

[GSCJR]

The emissions related software change probably altered injector timing and VVT functionality at cold start. These two things can affect oil consumption over time.

Honda did something similar with the 08-11 Accords, look up S/B #11-049.

Probably similar to the update the Tigershark also received from FIAT; 2.4 is the magic number I guess.

 

[Gus_Mahn]

It sure seems the the EPA has found issue with emissions strategy from multiple manufacturers. Both my 2016 Cadillac and my 2015 2.7 F150 have had an emissions software recall and I believe they both have something to do with catalyst efficiency bank to bank. I let them do the Cadillac, and I’ve had no issues. On the F150 forums there has been talk of catalyst efficiency codes after the update. As much as I’d like to have the transmission strategy updated, I’m going with ain’t broke philosophy on it.

 

[michaelluscher]

 

[Chief2025]

We received a letter from Kia back in mid December about a software update for the ECM for 2017-2022 cars with the 2.4L GDI engine. It said that there was a new program to update calibrations that may cause the engine to fail emissions testing. My daughter contacted a local dealer and had it installed 2 1/2 weeks ago.

I've been running Valvoline Restore and Protect in this car for a while now. That combined with a few piston soaks, has really slowed down the oil burning in this car. I check the oil for her every Monday morning and normally fill it up for the week for her. For the last 2 Monday mornings, I haven't had to add any oil to the car. The oil level has stayed exactly 1/2 way between the dots on the dipstick. I don't think that the emissions programming would have caused it to stop burning oil, but it is a nice touch that it seems to have stopped it for some reason???

Perhaps your rings are finally clean and moving as they should.