Fail To Accelerate problems of the 2005 Kia Motor Amanti

The contact owns a 2005 kia Amanti. While driving, the vehicle stalled and failed to accelerate. The dealer diagnosed that the accelerator sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 100,000.

Pulled out into a busy intersection - car crawled - did not respond to acceleration - lurched quickly into traffic almost causing an accident. Drove further down the road at 40 mph, car acceleration died almost completely, service engine light came on. I pulled off road, called my local kia dealer from whom I bought the car. They were no longer handling kia, had to have car towed an hour away and was told the throttle wire assembly was cleaned out and repaired. This was in January, 2008. February 2008 I took car to shop to have brakes checked - tech took it out for test drive. When he came back he asked if it had a problem with severe hesitation. I told him it was fixed last month (under warranty). He said he pulled into busy traffic twice and the vehicle failed to accelerate, almost causing 2 accidents. I drove the car back to work, acceleration failed once again and check engine light came on and stayed on. Going to have to have it towed an hour away for them to look at it again - meanwhile I'm without any form of transportation ( cannot get loaner) once it's fixed I will have to pay someone to drive me an hour away to pick it up! they need to figure out the problem - I have seen numerous complaints on the internet about this. It's causing me to be paranoid about even driving it, not knowing when it might happen again!.

Shortly after getting the car, it intermittently would fail to accelerate when the accelerator was pushed. By pushing it all the way to the floor it sometimes would then accelerate excessively, or by letting up on the accelerator and reapplying it a similar event would happen. Sometimes the car just muddles along very slowly in traffic until one of the above actions is taken, and sometimes pushing to the floor still does not make it accelerate. This has occurred in traffic at times causing an unsafe event due to surprise when expecting to clear traffic etc. Early on it was returned to dealer on at least two occasions for lengths of several days each time and we also involved company reps, but they offered no solution but said it seemed to be fine. Car continues to act up and notice that others have complained of a similar event on a website we monitor.