I don’t think any of you convinced me that Kias are any good. A car should be able to last over 100,000 miles. I guess it doesn’t matter if some of you total your car every 2 years. It’s a major problem some of you pointed out, when a transmission fails at 160,000km, or when the clutch needs replaced after 60,000. A used Kia after a few years wouldn’t be worth it to put a new transmission in. And it doesn’t make sense to spend more than the value of the car to replace a style of transmission which is known to fail early. Show me a Kia with 300,000+ miles and maybe you’ll have a shred credibility. Even the guy with the Dodge Neon pointed out - his car has gone 140,000 miles without any repairs (and Neons are not known for being good cars).
Wow. You dug up a two year old thread to bash Kias.
You mention transmission failure at 160,000 Km, yet the only transmission failure mentioned in this thread was @ 157,000 miles which is a bit over 250,000 Km.
Oh well I guess the question is WWAZD?
What would a zombie drive?
FWIW my 2009 Hyundai Elantra has about 390,000 kms on it now with no major repairs. (Come to think of it, no minor repairs. I did the front disc brakes once, and changed some bulbs, but that’s it!)
I’m hearing some clunking occasionally in the rear suspension, so I should get that looked at.
I haven’t been kind to this car. About 90% of the mileage (kilometerage?) has been on a highway commute at 110 kms/hr (~70 mph). I haven’t changed any fluids, apart from the oil, and even then I have gone TONNES of kilometers over the recommended change frequency.
I just topped up the oil tonight since the check engine icon recently appeared and I was indeed low.
I’m still driving the Hyundai with the rebuilt transmission. Now up to 223,000 miles and running fine.
I have a Kia and so do my two daughters and son-in-law. On the other hand, my son and his wife both own Hyundais plus had one with nearly 200K miles on it that they traded in on a newer Hyundai. And no we don’t live in Korea!
All these cars together have had less non-routine maintenance in total than my wife’s PT Cruiser or my old Mercury Topaz. The PT never even made it to 100K miles before we dumped it as I could feel the automatic transmission going out - again!
I have a 2010 Kia Soul, that I bought last December with 55,000kms on the clock, in the last 11 months I have put 44,000kms on it, mostly stop and go city driving (I’m a medical courier), and so far have not had a problem.
I am very pleased with both the car and the dealer.