general problems of the 2010 Kia Motor Forte

Never received a notice on vehicle having a recall.

As I am driving my car losses speed slows to almost stop. I keep my foot on the gas pedal very lightly pressing acceleration to keep it going.

The air bag is on for over 3 years and not included in the recall. This is a fearful safety issue. The serpentine belt has been replaced three times a year.

Automatic transmission frequently disengages while driving at any speed. It stops functioning suddenly and vehicle slows down even if still depressing gas pedal. It happened a few times while in heavy traffic almost causing to get rear ended by cars. No warning lights or messages appears when it malfunctions. It happened on day I purchased the vehicle and owner said it needed a flush according to her mechanic but never had it done. Ever since then it is happening more often. Is there a recall for this? if so, please notify. I'm sure other owners are having this problem.

Engine knock possibly related to Hyundai, kia theta ii motor recall. Dealership denies any information regarding engine safety or any fix for this issue. My car is having issues driving. It is concerning me because of this massive recall. This car uses a variant of the �theta ii� engine that is being recalled for metal shavings that cause internal engine damage. I believe my car dealership is holding out information regarding this safety issue.

I was pulling out of a parking spot vertically when I needed to give the car some gas rather than just lift foot off brake to get out of spot. The car delayed--would not accelerate. I tried again and it shot out rapidly uncontrollably out of the spot, side swiping the car next to me and going into a reverse figure eight swerving over parking lot and would not brake. The car ended up swerving into the back of a parked range rover as I threw my car into park since it would not stop. There was another complaint like mine on line about someone with the same model and about 38 k on car whose car acceleration did this moving going forward. I ended up with sustained injuries with body out of alignment, hip, and back pain. No one else was hurt because no one was in parking lot or cars.

I had had problems with the hood latch in the past. On two occasions, I was unable to get the hood open. During the incident, I was driving and the hood flew open and smashed into windshield and roof. Force caused the roof to cave in and hit me in the head. Extensive damage to hood, roof, part beside hood where hood meets windshield, windshield smashed. Please note. The car was purchased in June 2010 in manchester nh and used in new hampshire. Now reside in canada. The incident happened in canada.

Myself and the state patrol of long beach wa, were standing next to my car and his police car was right behind my car the kia. We both heard a pop sound and then look at my back window and it began to spider then the whole window shattered into pieces. No resin for this. Recall on window or the way kia puts them in/"? I owe $0 on my car and its under warranty.

Car was idling in parking lot when a burning smell was noticed. Thought it was something outside until noticed steam coming from top of hood. Shut car off and released hood. Got out of car to look and flames and black smoke were coming from the front of the car. Front tires blew out, windshield melted, front bumper and radiator gone. Headliner in car started burning. 911 was called to put out fire. Car is a total loss.

Melting dashboard.

Horn did not work when I tried honking to the other driver. We got backed into because the horn would not work therefore was involved in an accident. I recently noticed that whenever the alarm system would not work, the horn would not work either. I tried having a mechanic look into but could not determine the cause.

A few months back my shifter (automatic shifter) became sluggish and appeared to take more force to pull back into drive. Within the last month the vehicle now slips out of drive and into neutral. I have to hold the shifter back into drive (with force needed to keep pulling it back and maintain the "d" for drive on the odometer). If I am driving and I take my hand off of the shifter, it slips into neutral. This is creating an unsafe situation that hopefully is not occurring on many of these vehicles. There have been times that I have made my way into an intersection and have had my vehicle slip into neutral. In one case I was lucky to not get hit by pulling out to get into traffic and having it slip into neutral.

Odor of gasoline in passanger and engine compartment.

Purchased a 2010 kia Forte koupe in February 2011. After numerous complaints to the dealership and to Kia Motors, it has been determined that kia does not provide a driver's floormat that locks into the two carpet-mounted studs that are designed into the car. As a result, the driver's mat only locks into one stud, which allows the mat to pivot and swing left to right under the gas and brake pedals.