Posted on 05/18/2022 1:55:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
... this is one of those times—extra warranties turn out to be worth every penny.
One such decade-long warranty on a 2012 Kia Sorento expired last week. Thanks to a Reddit post by a mechanic at the dealership where the car was serviced, we know its unlimited-mile, 10-year service agreement enabled it to travel over half a million miles while supposedly going through nine engines. That's just the tip of the iceberg, too. Thanks to the extensive service records the owner kept, the repairs done to a Kia that averaged 60,800 miles a year are fully known, and it isn't pretty.
To preface all of this, the mechanic we spoke to says the vehicle was definitely abused. He's been working at the dealership for just a few months, but says he heard the driver "floors it literally at all times." The fact that somebody with such a heavy foot would keep such detailed service records seems strange, but as previously mentioned, the nine engines are just the beginning. Over the years, the poor Sorento allegedly received 203 oil changes, 20 transmission flushes, and four transmissions.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
Comparing mid size car to full size. Price isn’t a factor in that regard. Frankly no one is making full size cars outside the luxury brands anymore.
I’ll take Honda/Acura and Toyota/Lexus over any vehicle these days.
Scotty Kilmer of YouTube will agree with me.
My main car is a 2015 Ford Focus hatchback. I bought it used in 2016, with just under 30,000 miles. It’s a 4 cylinder with a dual transmission.
The day after I bought it, I read online about the Focus and Fiesta model customers having a problem with their dual trannies, some were quite serious.
I cursed myself for not doing the research I should’ve done in the first place.
It wasn’t too bad, it didn’t shift real smooth >sometimes< .
So, I drove it until a couple years later, I received a letter from Ford concerning the defective transmissions. They requested that I take to the dealership where I bought it and their technicians would test it and determine if it was a bad one.
Well, I did just that and it WAS one of them. They then replaced the entire transmission FOR FREE because when I bought the vehicle, I had paid extra for the extended warranty.
There are times in my life when I think I have made more bad decisions than good, but that was a good one.🙂
I still have it, do the regular maintenance on it, drive it to Chicago a half dozen times a year, got about 59,000 miles on it, and the new transmission works just fine. I tell my friends to spend the extra, it’s worth it.
KIA engines are defective. On 4 cyl Sorentos they have a problem with excessive cylinder wear, starting from the 3rd cylinder. There are conflicting opinions why. Some say oil channels are poor, others blame cooling system.
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