Motor mounts and pulleys defective. This will be my third time to the shop in less than a month. The pulleys and mounts are bound to cause other damage.
2004 Kia Optima engine complaints
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I purchased a brand new 2004 kia optima and paid in full. I purchased for the 10 yr warranty and extended warranty I bought. The A/C has always overheated , car seats in the locked positionmoving while driving out of their position, locks malfunctioning when no one is touching them, transmission jumping. Various other problems. The big bell road kia in phoenix, located at 2121 east bell road,
Ry time it rains and our county dirt road gets wet and muddy. Mud splashes up into the engine compartment and into the egr valve and causes it to malfuction due to the way it was desined. I took the car to the dealers shop and was told it was a maintence problem and that the dealer would fix it only once and after that I will have to pay for any repair if it fails again. As of this date ( 03/24/05) this car had 23760 miles of a 100,000 mile warranty on it.
While driving 35 MPH vehicle suddenly decelerated and would not go over 20 MPH. No impact reported. As a result, the check engine signal light stayed on.
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