The car cuts off while driving the car has a hard start, it takes at least 3 tries for it to stay on the brakes squeak loud when coming to a stop
2003 Kia Rio brakes complaints
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My kia rio has 15000 miles on and the brakes went in the car. I called the dealer heritage ford and they did not want to cover this. It was only the passenger side in the front. So that meant a faulty part in my eyes. I called kia also who did not care. So I had the brakes replaced and when taking them off on the passenger side the pad itself was there but the brake fell off the pad. And most normal cars the brakes are held on with a pop rivet. Not this car. They are held on with thin pieces of aluminum which everyone knows how easy aluminum bends and twists exactly how mine were. And the brake is held onto the pad with glue!!! These cars should be recalled for faulty manufacturing. I am very dissatisfied with this car and with the way kia handled this situation.
I was going to work and had to stop at a red light at spring creek and ringgold road. I put my foot of the brakes to stop and they locked, propelling the the car forward (approximately five or six car lengths). It didn't stop until I hit the car in front of me. It totaled both cars. I had the car in for inspection two months ago because the brakes would catch real hard when it was damp outside and one of the back brakes had a clunking sound in it. They tightened the calipers and said there was nothing wrong with the brakes. They did the first maintenance inspection two weeks ago and said everything was fine. The brakes were still catching really badly when it was damp outside ( not necessarily raining out, it just had to be damp early in the morning for them to catch). We looked at the rotors when we went up by fines to get everything out of the car. They look like they have a lot of miles on them (the car only has 6,800 miles on it).
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