Eight problems related to equipment have been reported for the 2010 Kia Motor Optima. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2010 Kia Motor Optima based on all problems reported for the 2010 Optima.
I was getting ready to go out of town for work so before I left my home town. I went to a place to get my oil change. Before going everything was fine. I left there and literally 5 minutes after my car killed. Once it start back. The motor start making a noise it’s been parked.
Car would not engage into “park” while attempting to park car in driveway. Shifter would not engage in any gear. Tried to reset button in center console. Contacted mechanic, he towed to garage. Plastic clip connected to cable broke. Earlier kia’s had a recall due to this issue, why not all kias due to it is still happening. I was very fortunate that this happened to me in my driveway and not on the highway. I understand there is the same part at the other end of the cable, connects to transmission and shifter, if it also breaks it is going to be very expensive to repair due to placement of the part. I had to rent a vehicle for work while part had to be ordered and replaced.
Driving home from work may7 on i64 st. Charles CO,mo. Smoke coming from under hood as I approached bride over missouri river and as soon as I crossed bridge it was worse and I called home to say my car was on fire and I was getting out of it ,then I called 911 and police and fire dept from from cottleville arriver. The car completely burned all the way to the trunk. T here was no apparent condition to have caused it to burn as car was well maintained and in good condition.
When accelerating or slowing down my vehicle jerk even when I'm on the highway and have the cruise control set it will do the same thing. I would like to know what I need to do or if there is any kind of recall on this because I really can't afford to take it and have it looked at. I have seen multiple reports of the same problem and with all of the report I don't see how kia has not done anything about it.
I live in iowa and we got 6 inches of snow. . . . Went to clean the snow off my car with the brush part of snow brush and while doing that was also warming up my car and as I was cleaning off the back windshield I noticed a hole in the window. . . . . My back window not only had a hole in it but shattered!! how does this happen?!?! I did nothing wrong!!! nothing I haven't done a million times before and why am I responsible for paying for this?!?!?.
While decelerating, either braking or coasting, the car will lurch violently when reaching approximately 22 mph. The severity of the lurch varies but in most instances it is hard enough to snap my neck forward.
Driver door fails to unlock when remote is pressed to unlock but will unlock all other doors. The drivers door and all other doors will lock with remote but only the drivers door will not unlock.
The car buckles when reducing your speed to around 20 mph. Also the rear seat door lock stopped working and my car is no longer under warranty and kia wants to charge me around 700 dollars to fix it.
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