Tl*the contact owns a 2003 kia sedona. the contact was unable to enter and exit the driver side door with her key or remote. the dealer informed her that they would have to break the door to repair the vehicle; however, they smashed the window instead. the door lock actuator was replaced on the driver side door. the remaining locks on the vehicle have not failed. the contact is aware of the safety risk involved. the fuel system was unknown. the approximate current and failure mileages were 120,000.
Tl* - the contact owns a 2003 kia sedona. the contact stated that the handles on the rear passenger and driver side doors broke off of the vehicle. the handles were plastic. the doors were unable to be opened because the child safety lock were on. the failure mileage was 74,500. the dealer stated that the vehicle was out of warranty. *ak
Car has been huge headache bought new in 2003 has been towed twice for leaking coolant lines that rusted out. last time was on vacation kia has not returned on phone call or e-mail as it cost me 300 dollars and car is under bumper to bumper warranty has 34k miles . drivers door handle broke and airbag light was on fixed by dealer. one brake pad lining fell off at 25k miles replaced myself. most important we had a rear tire blow out at 60 mph in three lanes of traffic. tire shredded apart with 28k miles and was new york inspected 2 months earlier. other back tire bubbled out on one side and made the car shudder. replaced tires myself but please investigate this car now i am really worried after reading about the airbags not deploying. *jb
Pin/latch on door handle breaks. *ak
I need your help to resolve a serious problem. i have nowhere else to turn. my daughter is the owner of a 2003 kia sedona. within a three month period, three of the door handles have fallen off this vehicle! after each handle fell off, she reported it to the local kia dealership. she learned that door handles were not covered and that she would have to pay $250.00 per door to have them repaired. the cost to repair this vehicle is now $750.00. kia does not consider defective door handles a safety issue so there has never been a recall. i believe that this is most certainly a safety issue. if my family was involved in an accident, my four little grandchildren would be trapped inside this vehicle. since i began researching this problem on the internet, i learned that there are many people who have experienced this same problem with their kia sedona van. their complaints are the same'door handles that have fallen off and kia refusing to fix them. this is obviously a manufacturer defeat. i know many people who own antique vehicles'all their vehicles still have their original door handles. i have never heard of door handles falling off a vehicle, let alone three! i contacted both our local kia dealership and the kia corporation. the kia corporation of america's (800-333-4542) consumer affairs assistant sounded like a robot. she told me that this was not a recall item, the time for reporting a manufacturing defeat was over and that nothing would be done! she did say that if we wanted them to look at the vehicle we could bring it into the dealership, pay for diagnostics but they would still not pay to fix this problem. this is just throwing good money after bad! why would i pay them to tell me again they are not going to fix this vehicle? when i spoke to the kia dealership in st. augustine, they were sympathetic, however, they cannot absorb the costs of the repair. please help all these kia sedona owners with this serious problem. *tr
I have numerous complaints on my 2003 kia sodona. i purchased the vechile in june of 2003, we have since taken the van in to the dealership for a variety of problems. the aircondtioner stop blowing cold air with in the first three months of owning it, this has been fixed. paint has peeled off the front bumper, seat belt ratcheting system stopped working, engine mount needed replacing, tansmition needed adjusting three times, and the last problem was the vechile would lock when ever and where ever it felt the need to. i locked my self out of the car with my children inside many times. the dealship replaced a main panal inside the door. despite, all the times i have taken it in, at least twice for every problem, the dealership refuses to give me a car, mind you i have two children to cart around all day. i am extrmemly peeved about this van.