Kia and Hyundai recall 3.3 million cars, tell owners to park outside
Kia and Hyundai recall 3.3 million cars, tell owners to park outside
Kia and Hyundai are advising motorists to park affected models outside after a rash of fires linked to faulty brakes.
It's time for another fire-risk recall from the Korean duo! Yet another problem for their infamous decade of vehicles '10-'19 roughly. Skipping immobilizers, undersized wiring (fire), leaking brake fluid (fire), garbage GDI 4-cyl engines (fire), leaking high pressure fuel pumps (fire), trailer wiring defects (fire) and more just weren't enough. Now another brake fluid leak in the braking system can cause another short and cause a fire.
The "fix" is a fuse replacement. It doesn't fix the actual leak so it's a band-aid at best. But also par for the course for the duo.
kia boys are going to have a field day
I thought only electric cars caught fire /s
As someone who got 175,000 miles out of a Hyundai, I will say that the cars are well engineered... but the build quality and materials are lowest bidder F tier, and that means these cars fall apart inside of 6 years.
But if you park outside, then it gets stolen because it doesn't have an immobilizer.
just hyundai/kia things!
Looks like theirs about 6 years worth of bad parts on both these companies. Lots of mechanics won't work on them and telling owners to trade them in and get another brand.
Yeah, newer Kia’s are… Alright I guess? But it used to be so bad that mechanics would joke that “KIA” was short for “Killed In Action” because they’d tow so many in from the sides of highways.
Can confirm called that here as well. My parents owned a 2003. Worst car they owned. Currently, My neighbors 2018 had been in the shop nearly every month this year.
My neighbors have a little Hyundai SUV, it has that 1.6 GDI engine and they say you have to top the oil up every time you put gas in it. A quart every 300 miles. Its not that old, either. They want to get rid of it, but the price of cars has been a bit silly lately.
Weird that it's just a fuse replacement. I'm not sure that makes sense.
There was an earlier recall on the auto braking system on some high-end HKG cars (Stinger, g70) where they also just put in a lower rated fuse. So now in an emergency the system will. Blow the fuse instead of work but maybe catch fire? Seems fishy.
I feel like these companies shouldn't get away with not fixing the root problem.
American-made Hyundais and Kias are of a different breed indeed, if Korean cars are as 1/10 as unreliable in my country Hyundai/Kia would have their public perception fell through the bottom lol.
(looks at wife's new Ioniq 5 next to my Corvette) You better fucking not! I love my car more than my children.
LOOK EVERYONE THIS GUY OWNS A CORVETTE.