2011 Kia Sportage: sudden loss of power

Filed Feb 4, 2023 · Electrical, Engine · WV

the check engine light blinked and i lost power as i was driving. they replaced my engine and now i have 6 lights on my dash.

Filed Aug 28, 2019 · Engine · WA

Takata recall im having loss power and has died on me three times in last few weeks and running out pinging noise and running rough it has about 85,000 miles on it and I kept up all the maintenance on this car.

Filed Mar 8, 2019 · Engine · 56,162 miles · AZ

During a return trip I suddenly hear a clicking noise coming from the engine bay area so I pulled over and parked the car for a quick check and while the noise persisted I needed to find a safer location so I drove off and eventually found a safer place to park but the noise was even louder as tho a rod was thrown and by the time I found this parking spot the car had lost all power. This happened so suddenly and without warning as a few hours prior there was no indication of any engine problems.

Filed Mar 23, 2018 · Engine · 78,000 miles · IL

My car started getting bad gas mpg and loss of power and check engine light was on regarding 2 bad camshaft position sensors. Kia dealer checked the car and said the sensors simply needed replaced. I replaced the sensor and car problems got worse. Engine makes ticking noise when running. Kia service had no solution. After about 1 to 2 months I was driving the car on the highway and the car engine stopped and everything went dead. I had to shift into neutral and steer the car to the shoulder of the road fortunately avoiding an accident. I had problems with the car stalling while driving at least 50 to 100 times while stopped and while moving in the last 4 months. I had the car towed to the kia dealership service department. After a day I was contacted by the service technician and told the engine was seized up and I would have to purchase a new engine ($4500+). I've asked multiple times through the dealership and kia corporate what caused the engine failure but they refuse to give me a reason for the failure or investigae why the car continually malfunctioned and then died. The dealership said they would look for a cause if I paid them $1500 up front. Bottom line what happened to my car is the exact same as detailed in kia recall sc147. Kia refuses to recognize this, says the vehicle is out of warrenty and I'm simply screwed. I'm not paying $4500+ for a new engine when they can't even tell me what went wrong with the first one. Kia says my car has mpi fuel injection and the recall sc147 only covers cars with gdi fuel injection. The problem with that is that recall sc147 has nothing to do with the fuel delivery system. Despite communication with highest levels of kia america and the dealership I've been told repeatedly that kia will do nothing for me. Kia stated that my car engine to seize up and die at 78,000 is completely acceptable to kia.

Filed Jun 20, 2016 · Engine · 79,000 miles · MI

Engine shut down in the highway causing loss of power steering/brakes. Car has less than 80k miles, all oil changes performed per spec recently adter switching to full synthetic oil changed every 5000 miles. Engine seized. Very similar to hyundai recall issued 9/25/2015. Same engine manufactured in the same plant with a different name badge.

Filed Jun 12, 2015 · 58,500 miles · PA

While on vacation in la we had a problem with our 2011 kia sportage. While driving the car lose power and would not accelerate. We had to restart the car repeatedly until we reached our destination. We took the car to a local autozone and they got a code for the throttle position sensor. We found a dealership and took the car in. They told us there was a past code , but that was not the code they got. After sitting all day waiting for kia corporation to tell them what to do to fix it, we finally got the car back and told it was a pin tension that was loose and they fix it. No charge since it was still under warranty. We had no problems until 2 months later and they car is doing the same thing. Called the dealership where we bought the car and it took a week to get an appt. Now we are being told that they got a code for the throttle pos sensor and that it is not under warranty any longer ( mileage is 61000). They have had the car for 2 days. No loaner car was offered to us and it is apparent that this is a problem. Somebody will surely get hurt.

Filed Mar 24, 2012 · Electrical, Transmission · HI

We have had our car in to be serviced five times and the problems are still not fixed. The first problem was that it was randomly hesitating and there were a few times we almost were in an accident because the car would not accelerate. On one occasion the car would not go past 40mph with the gas pedal floored, we took it in and were eventually told that the problem was fixed, after my husband provided a few service bulletins to the aloha kia service dept. (on our second trip in) each time we have had our car "fixed" the problems have returned with more problems sometimes immediately after, sometimes in a day or two. We have yet to be told what is wrong. The following are problems we are experiencing: randomly not accelerating, the vehicle locking up in park, loss of power, a rolling feeling while driving, whining noise, grating feeling in steering and gas pedal, shifting is really loud and takes longer than it should, brakes are not reliable sometimes there is little resistance in the pedal, we are getting 200 miles to the tank, you can feel a pattern of bumps while driving it is like smooth bump smooth bump bump smooth bump etc... ( I do not know how else to describe it and we have not been told what is wrong) on the last occasion my car was serviced I was told everything was fixed and all of the problems tied into the brake system, the computer had to "re-learn" what it should know. I drove for three miles before experiencing the problems again, and they are getting worse. I feel the service dept. Does not want to address the real problem, there is a terrible defect with a major component(s) of this car. I have taken video of my instrument panel while driving to reflect the irregular shifting.