It’s the same advice as has been posted here in this thread earlier and elsewhere many times, wasting petrol doing long journeys in 3rd gear to cure something that will only come back again. The car is simply not suited to shorter journeys. Buggering about wasting time and money (petrol) reving the engine up in 3rd won’t cure the fact it’s a bad design.
so is the software and revised sensor that is claim just no good? It really is not great for customers, the sales people should be advising people who do really short journeys the vehicle may not be suitable for them
There was no revised sensor on the 22/23 models. Hyundai/Kia skipped MY24 and recently came out with MY2025, which had a revised engine line up.
The problem is a mirror of diesel when they became popular with low mileage users, which overtime were sorted by manufacturers software update to allow passive regeneration which in most cases cured it from low mileage drivers.
Both Hyundai/Kia when they first brought the new MY22 out had instructions how to clear the problem in the manual however it was based on a diesel which is the opposite to how a petrol car is regenerated. Both manufacturers then had a recall, to correct how a petrol vehicle should be regenerated, which involves deacceleratin to increase the oxygen level at operating temperature.
In 2early 2023 both manufacturers came out with a software update, which wasn’t really successful. Both manufacturers were going to look at working on another update, which never materialised. Then MY25 came about with a completely different engine setup.
There are rumours saying it was the exhaust system that lead to the problem on the petrol only and mild hybrid version. The full hybrid and plug in didn’t really see the problems or did other vehicles in Hyundai/Kia’s lineup with the 1.6tdgi engine. There was however a range of VIN numbers that didn’t get the problem or to the same extent.
Did they choose not to come clean because of a $200 million lawsuit in May 23 or just didn’t see a problem and thought it was easier to blame the customer.