Four problems related to equipment have been reported for the 2009 Kia Motor Sorento. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2009 Kia Motor Sorento based on all problems reported for the 2009 Sorento.
Driving on the interstate @ 65mph the car cut off then caught on fire. Smoke came in the car we pulled over to emergency lane exited the car and then flames came up through the console. The car became completely engulfed in flames and totally destroyed. There were no injuries. I have a video of the event. I do not know the cause. All of the gauges were working properly and read normal.
I've only had my kia Sorento for a little over 2 years and I was trying to go forward when my car just started going in reverse. I had the car in drive and it just started going in reverse. I tried to put it in park and the same thing happened. So now it just going in reverse in all gears.
I was driving on black top rd. It had been sleeting the kia I was driving vered off the the opposite side of rd. I went off in ditch hiting hitting a tree head on my air bag didn't deploy I would like to know why is this normal I don't think so I thought that is what they were for my injuries were sprained wrist & neck & back & my breast bone hurts I was driving a 2009 kia Sorento looking forward to your reply does this happen very often to this make of vechicle?.
The car will sometimes shift hard. When it does this and I put it into drive, the tach will go up and the engine revs, but the car moves at a snails pace. Even if the pedal is to the floor. It is unsafe to drive at that point as I could not safely make a left hand turn to cross traffic. I would likely get hit before I could clear the intersection. I have to shut the car on and off a few times removing the key while doing this to get the car to run normal again. I have taken it to kia 3 times for this problem and they have not fixed it. They said they could not reproduce the problem and I should bring it in when the car is acting up. But I live about 50 miles from the nearest kia dealer, how am I supposed to drive a car that won't go over 5 mph and is unsafe to drive? when I took it in last week I was basically told they had nothing to go on since they couldn't pull a code from the car and I was out of luck because while he suspected he knew what system was causing the issue they were not going to fix it because there was no code. And my warranty will be up at the end of the month. I have researched kia reviews and have seen a few people with the same year, make and model have the same issues with their cars, and some people indicated it was a transmission issue. I shared this with the kia serviceman and he dismissed the information saying that was highly unlikely as kia makes superior transmissions. I later found out that I even have a friend who had this same issue with her kia and also had to replace the transmission. So it actually kind of sounds like a common problem to me. As a side note, it did this while in PA on vacation. The kia dealer looked at it there, they said it was a sensor under the pedal and they replaced it. But it has done it again since they fixed that problem. The part that was replaced is part of that system the serviceman was referring to.
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