Reply To: A word of advice on Kia Sportage GPF (Petrol Warning Light)

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Irena

    Hello, I have deja vu reading Max’s observation and also some of the  replies on the filter problem. After 12.000 km the problem appeared and light was still on after hours of driving on high turns .  I was ignoring it for few days afterwards, simply because it was inconvenient to spend hours a day driving maniacally trying to repair the damn filter. But the the engine turned into some mode without strength. It is nonsense to expect of the customer to just give up his/hers daily schedule to exhaust the engine and have fuel costs in vain. When reporting it to the official dealer, they were laughing at me by saying “what’s the problem, you just keep on driving on 2800 turns in 4th manual speed for 15 min.” And then they claimed that was exactly what they did to repair it. But after 3000 km, it returned, and I was cautious to avoid driving low km on cold days, I would switch to old car those occasions in the meantime, which is absurd when paying such money for a new car. This time I continued driving for an hour on 3000 turns in 4th manual , as a lunatic, and the light is still on. I am not in a postion to just ged rid of it, but that’s exactly what I would the most gladly do. As I’,m really furious about it.