Kia Carens here, halfway through current lease with 8,800 miles on the clock that’s hardly changed since end of February and all’s well.
All’s well except one tiny little bug or slightly faulty sensor? When the car was at about 5,000 miles one day out in the car the traction control light lit up for a couple of miles. Checked the manual and it just says “go to the dealer to check” but then the next day its gone and I don’t see it for about another 1,000 miles or more then again the lights on for a few miles and then its gone. Never seen for another couple of thousand then its back for a few miles and gone again. I put it down to a faulty sensor or software but hesitate to take it to the dealer as next thing you know because they can’t find anything wrong they want to keep the car in for a week while they investigate. Had the same with the tracking right from the start after asking them to check it at a few hundred miles because the car has a very slight pull to the left that they said was normal so I told them it must just be my imagination running away with me after driving for nearly 50 years and covering well over a million miles and that I’m well aware of the drainage gradient of the roads. A couple of niggally things but overall happy with the reliability of the car.
All’s well except one tiny little bug or slightly faulty sensor? When the car was at about 5,000 miles one day out in the car the traction control light lit up for a couple of miles. Checked the manual and it just says “go to the dealer to check” but then the next day its gone and I don’t see it for about another 1,000 miles or more then again the lights on for a few miles and then its gone. Never seen for another couple of thousand then its back for a few miles and gone again. I put it down to a faulty sensor or software but hesitate to take it to the dealer as next thing you know because they can’t find anything wrong they want to keep the car in for a week while they investigate. Had the same with the tracking right from the start after asking them to check it at a few hundred miles because the car has a very slight pull to the left that they said was normal so I told them it must just be my imagination running away with me after driving for nearly 50 years and covering well over a million miles and that I’m well aware of the drainage gradient of the roads. A couple of niggally things but overall happy with the reliability of the car.Boy I had to dig deep to find this thread but just had to come back and do an update to my tracking problem, a problem that’s been with me since the car was brand new out of the dealers showroom 2 year almost to the day.
As noted above that I took the car back to have the tracking checked when the car had a few hundred miles on the clock.
Car was services a year ago and still the thing pulls to the left but it’s just my imagination running away from me, I know. ?
Low and behold car went it for service last Friday and came back with no tracking problem and the car now steers as it should have always done, in a straight line. ?
So why now after 2 years and 10,500 miles ? Well this is the first time ever (due to Covid) that I’ve had to have the car service on a collect and return basis so meant someone from the dealers had to drive the car for 6 miles and it must of rang a bell in their heads.
So bottom line is the dealer think we old disabled folk don’t know what were talking about when we report problems that are passed off as normal yet when they drive the car for just a few miles they note the problem and fix it. ?♀️