general problems of the 2009 Kia Motor Sedona

Recently the driver side master switch that opens/locks all the van doors or move all the windows up and down stopped working. The van also cannot be locked from outside with the remote. The car has to be locked and opened manually by the key. This issue with the driver side master switch is a major safety issue. Today when we went to fill gas, we found that the gas tank release button is also not working. Fortunately the mechanic at the pump showed us a way of manually releasing the cap from the trunk of the van which enabled us to fill gas today. This is a serious safety issue: not being able to open the gas tank cover the regular way. Neither the mechanic today nor another mechanic who I have used for the past 25 years could figure out what is wrong electrically. They checked the fuses and ran diagnostics but nothing stood out.

When going through a puddle of some depth maybe 6 inches(not sure exactly), the power steering will stop and a couple of lights come on, on the dashboard. Then about 15 seconds later all goes back to normal. Always seems to happen when turning left or right.

Vehicle was repaired in 2013 but by 2014 was acting up again. Same problem as initial repair. A recall repair that goes bad in within 20,000 miles is not a good repair. When asked to repair it again kia put in the wrong part I had to take it back a 3rd time to get it fixed. The total cost to my repair was $679. 45. The problem was that the car would not shift from park into drive and the esc light would go on,it took multiple tries to get the car out of park in order to drive it.

My vehicle suddenly stopped to react to the gas pedal, motor rpm fell down to ~1000 rpm - usually its idle value. The problem happened as I was trying to speed up while entering the traffic on a highway, and it created a dangerous situation. . Read more...

The lights have to be shut off manually every time we use the lights and if we forget, the lights come back on a few hours later by themselves and someone will call to inform us the lights are on. We went on a wet gravel road and gravel stuck in the brake drum and making a grinding noise. I backed up fast, hit the brakes hard a couple of times to clear the gravel from the brake drums. Another problem is the key will not turn and the steering wheel is locked and have to play with the steering wheel and try to wiggle it until the key can be turned to start the van.