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Atm yes it is just manual, it has been on motabilty as auto as we have one

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I disagree, not everyone is waiting a long time, it’s not Motability’s fault the cars are taking a long time and what cars are on the scheme

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Thought they would change them at 2mm

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Sandancer it’s your choice what to do but as I have said only had it once and that is the only thing I have had in 7 months and yes mostly short journeys so to me I don’t see it as a big problem, I have also seen people where it is a bigger problem ?‍♂️

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We have had the 1.6 petrol for 7 months now and the ppf problem only once and removed it very easily, short 30 mile drive which I had to do and it went away, for the last few months all journeys have been short ones,

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Badges don’t bother me, the last 2 new cars we have had didn’t have spare wheel, one was ford one was Renault

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Kia are starting to do a software upgrade to the ecu which has to be done at the garage they should be contacting people about this soon, think it will be a recall

 

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Kia have a software update which is the first step to solve this issue, someone from a Facebook page I am on has posted that Kia have been in touch and his car is booked in to have the update done, they will be contacting all owners with a ppf to update the software

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I don’t know what they are going to do but it has been said they will have a fix to this next month, that was from someone on a sportage Facebook page

 

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Sorry should have checked what I put, they havnt been told about this happening atm

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Just had a reply from Kia uk and they been told about a recall at this time?

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I have just seen it on a group I am on on Facebook so cant say anymore than that, I have been complaining on Facebook messenger to kia and they haven’t mentioned it either but have just asked them so will wait their reply

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Rumour has it that kia will be doing a recall about this in the next few weeks

 

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we have the mhev and round town we get 35 and on a run we have got 49, the filter problem has come on once which with a drive of 30 miles it went of

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We have the MHEV and we are getting 35 round town and 50 on a run to London which is approx 200 miles mostly motorway

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I have seen reports where mg have the same issue

 

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its the short journeys that does it as the exhaust doesn’t get hot

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I am with you on that one Paul,

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I have found they always fit premium brands, might be different from original but that doesn’t bother me.

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Had ours for 2weeks now and no issues, dealer put latest software in for us, more than happy with the car even more so now I have sorted all the tech out?

 

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We went to London and back over the weekend, we was in eco mode and mostly motorway driving and got 47 mpg, the little trips we did driving around got 35, that was in out 1.6 petrol awd auto

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Had the call this morning car is at the dealers and can pick up on Tuesday morning. Ordered 5th April, was told end September so a couple of weeks early

Kia SPRTG1.6TGD48VISGGT-LnS5dATAWD in red

 

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Jez wrote:

Ordered Kia Sportage 4 1.6 T-GDI MHEV AWD in Blue Flame Ordered on the 6th May 2022 Estimated delivery was August 2022 approximately 16 weeks this has passed no build date yet. Advised a few weeks ago chassis number provided and waiting for engine number to complete vin. Has anyone ordered about the time as myself? Any feedback is appreciated I will keep you updated.

we ordered on 5th, was told august/September, still no build date but last week had an email from dealer to say car was waiting to be shipped, so tbh anything can happen at anytime

 

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We ordered on 5th April, 1.6 tgd48visggt-lns5datawd

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So from last weeks email update to say still no build date to an email this morning to say car is ready to be shipped?‍♂️

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