general problems of the 2012 Kia Motor Sedona

The contact owns a 2012 kia Sedona. The contact stated that while attempting to parallel park and gear in drive, the vehicle independently accelerated violently while lightly depressing the accelerator pedal. No warning light illuminated. The contact crashed the front of the vehicle into the rear of a parked vehicle where it came to a stop. No police report was filed. No injuries were sustained. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer where it was diagnosed however the failure was unable to be replicated. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The contact's wife mentioned that the failure had occasionally occurred in the past but was able to avoid a collision. The vehicle was taken to the same dealer for the previous incidents where it was confirmed that the vehicle performed as normal. The failure mileage was approximately 213,000.

First the check engine light would come on and the van would jerk then I had no control over the gas 6/19/2014 I had to pull over turn the van off wait about five mins then turn it back on a go till it happened again took it to the dearship got it fixed then two days later 6/21/2014 same problem occured and this time the gas would go down on its own so I took it back on Thursday 6/26/2014 they looked at it came out told me it was a throttle issue and he wasnt going to let me drive it they put me in a rental and I got my van back on 7/02/2014 and about three to four hours or so after getting it back the throttle started doing it again so now I have to call them back again and let them know the throttle is doing it again. I have four daughter's that drive around in the van with me when im not at work I can't take the chance of something happening while there in the van with me and I cant keep taking the time to drive the van from lehigh to cape coral to get it fixed. When I took it the first time I hadto pull over about 12 times before I got there.

I have reported to the kia dealership and filed a complaint with Kia Motors customer service about the accelerator pedal being unusually sensitive to foot pressure. This is a constant issue that causes me to accelerate more than I wish to. I have never experienced an issue with an accelerator pedal in my decades of driving experience. From a stop, I have to concentrate on pressing down extremely gently or else I can spin my wheels and lurch forward unintentionally. While driving I cannot help but speed up more than I want to do. It is dangerous and wastes fuel to be continually backing off foot pressure after the overly sensitive (loose feeling) gas pedal speeds up the engine. I asked to take the dealership service director with me. He had me drive another kia Sedona, which is when I discovered the accelerator pedal felt and acted similarly to mine. Therefore, this is a general safety problem that so far Kia Motors has confronted. My dealership did check out my gas pedal and thought there was nothing extraordinary about how it performed. There was no fix for my problem. The kia Sedona has a pedal that acts differently than other kia vehicles. I have a friend who owns a 2012 kia SUV that I have no problem with, at all.

While accelerating, the gas pedal would not return to the up position causing the vehicle to continue to accelerate. I was able to control the vehicle through a combination of braking and shifting to neutral until the pedal came back up on it's own. Time encompassed was approximately 60 seconds. Traffic on the road was light which made the situation much more manageable.