While driving down the road my car stalled and all dash lights came on. i was able to get to side of road. i thought it was a loose battery cable. checked everything and tried to start and it turned right over. then while driving i started to hear a knock then a boom and thud and the car shutoff. i was able to coast to the side of the road and wait for a tow. but now i have a 4 inch hole in the side of my engine and kia is saying my vehicles vin is not on the recall list.
Blinking engine light while driving
Hi i came home on lunch one afternoon the car drove perfectly fine no issues what's so ever. about an hour passed and it was time to go back to work so i put the key in the ignition and they car never started again. it sounded to me like it wasn't getting any fuel so i thought i'll change the fuel pump..that's when i learned that there was a fuel pump from a polaris artticat snowmobile that was used by the manufacturer which ok i thought was funny at the time but finding a replacement part was a nightmare..i finally found a replacement part which i just had to get a whole new fuel pump and assembly but when it didn't start after that i didn't know what to do. i took it to vip and had them take a look they called me back the next day and said they had no clue what was wrong with it and that i needed to come grab it and bring it to the dealer where i bought it from. that's when i learned the engine somehow stopped getting compression and that blew up merchants said i needed a new engine ...
My wife and i were on our way to park city, ut for a family trip and after we dropped off our stuff off at the hotel we headed to heber city, ut. on our way, the car started making a ticking sound when the gas was pushed. and then the car died. without any warning or anything. it just died. we have not had any issues with this car. we have taken great care of this car. the next day we went and had the car towed to a kia dealership, and they determined that the engine had locked up and that i needed a new engine. i have had this car for 8 months, and it only has 108, 000 miles on it. this is insane.
My wife and i were on our way to park city, ut for a family get together and after we dropped off our stuff at the hotel we headed to heber city, ut. on our way, the car started making a ticking sound when the gas pedal was pushed. and then the car died, without any warning. the next day we went and had the car towed to a kia dealership and they determined that the engine had seized up and that i needed a new engine. i have had this car for 8 months, and it only has 108,000 miles on it. kia refuses to take ownership of their defective product!
I was driving the vehicle came to a stop at a red light , the vehicle had stalled on its own tried turning it back over and it would not do anything we had to push the vehicle out of the middle of an intersection unbelievable! the motor seized up for no reason and left me stranded now kia will not do anything about it the vehicle only has around 51,000-52,000 miles!
Traveling on black friday in 2019, the engine hickuped as we were passing a car. within two miles, a loud knocking sound started, and within a mile, the car quit running. we had it towed to a local mechanic who said the engine was shot. we contacted kia with our vin number, and they said the car was not covered under a recall of other kia models where the engine had died in the exact same fashion.
Knocking noise coming from engine, have taken the vehicle to an independent mechanic as well as kia dealership service department (franklin, tn), both diagnosed the problem as needed a new engine ($5000-7,000). this vehicle as 145,000 miles, oil changed at every 5000 miles. there is no explanation or reasonable cause of engine failure except for manufacturing.
Traveling home on interstate highway at 75 mph when i suddenly heard an unfamiliar noise coming from the engine compartment. a few seconds later, some louder noises came from the engine area and i lost all power and lots of lights lit up on the dash. i could immediately smell burning oil and noticed blue smoke in my rear view mirror and what looked like a circular part sliding on the pavement behind me which i knew was some part from the car. i pulled over onto the shoulder and lifted the hood and saw flames on the rear of the engine on the exhaust area. i used 10 or 12 handfuls of snow from the ditch to throw on the fire to get it out. had it towed to the nearest city and had to rent a car to get home. i know that the engine blew up. i saw oil from the engine on the shoulder right up to where it came to rest.
While driving on the highway, i attempted to increase my speed and the vehicle begin to decrease in speed. i immediately got pulled over and the vehicle slowed all the way down and stopped. the car wouldn't restart or go. at this time 2 lights appeared on the dash, the oil light and battery light. my oil had recently been change 2 weeks prior. once towed to a shop, they determined it could be engine issues because the car had power but wouldn't turnover. i then towed the vehicle to the kia dealership where they said there could be a battery issue. once the battery was ruled out, i was called 30 minutes later and informed my engine was locked. at 148, 000 miles and the only owner of the car, i had not prior warnings of sudden engine failure. i was on the highway going 80 mph, no noises, no lights, nothing. i was told there was no recall on the vehicle and it was like a person dying of old age. there are recalls on the 2012 kia sportages for engine issues.
On sunday (11/3) i was driving my 2012 kia sportage (a car we purchased used from kia of east hartford, ct and currently only has 68,000 miles on it) on a very busy interstate when the engine began to power down. i was barely able to make it to the shoulder of the road before the car seized up, a loud bang sounded from under the car, it began to smoke from underneath the car and oil covered the ground. the car was then towed to our local auto body shop where it was determined that the engine block suffered a quarter-sized hole from something being dispelled at a high rate of speed from the engine. when this was determined, we did some research and found there as a recall and we were never notified (see below). vin #[xxx]. we were told by the kia dealership that whatever caused our car to just stop working on the interstate?was not covered under the recall. it seems very suspect that given what exactly happened, this is not part of the recall. after much debate and over a month later still without a vehicle, kia has told us they ...
My engine seized and stopped while driving. engine began knocking earlier that day with no prior warnings, lights illuminating, etc. i wasn't even able to get it home or to the dealership before it died. we perform regular maintenance on our car and there is no reason it should've died so soon. it needs a completely new engine now. similar models are already on recall and a pending lawsuit for similar models but they don't seem to include the mpi engine. only turbo and gdi are included, which is wrong because i've found many reports of this engine failing too. there's a big problem here.
My vehicle stopped in the middle if a street light . i took it to kia shop they said the engine died which before that i never got warnings . i know kia does have problems with the engine . they are covering the engine but i have to pay for labor which is a little over 3,000 dollars . i'm not satisfied but i need my car .
I was driving with my daughter at 7:30 pm on santiago canyon road orange, ca. when i noticed a clicking sound and caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye of a light reflecting off the road. i instantly pulled over and told my daughter to get out. the car took about 3 to 4 minutes to totally go up in flames. i was never contacted about any potential problems with this car or anything about the kia sorrento we also own. now i won't be driving that car either.
2012 kia sportage ex purchased june 2019 with 69,974 miles. the engine seized up september 2019 with 72466 while driving 60 mph with no warning at all; no dash lights, no temperature gauge rising - nothing. all that was heard was a couple rapping sounds and then a big thud coming from the engine compartment followed by a total loss of power steering and brakes. after we struggled to get the car off the road without getting rear-ended, we tried to restart it and smoke started coming from under the hood. no fire started. fluid levels fine (radiator full; oil full - the car has only been driven 2492 miles since we bought it. diagnosis of a seized engine was confirmed by a mechanic. the kia dealership quoted me a price of $6700 for a used replacement engine with 109,000 miles. another local mechanic quoted roughly the same for another high mileage engine. this solution is a tough pill to swallow considering my engine only had 72466 miles on it when it died. whose to say that the older engine wouldn't fail in the near future. ...