Manifold/header/muffler/tail Pipe problems of the 2012 Kia Motor Sorento

Tl the contact owns a 2012 kia Sorento. The contact stated that there was excessive smoke coming from the rear tail pipe. There was also reduced engine power when needing to drive more than 40 mph. Century 3 kia (2483 lebanon church rd, west mifflin, PA 15122, (412) 466-1466) was notified of the failures and stated that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 17v224000 (engine and engine cooling). The contact stated that the failures were related to the recall campaign. In addition, the vehicle was not included in NHTSA action number: pe19004 (exterior lighting, electrical system, engine and engine cooling, unknown or other, engine, service brakes, hydraulic). The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 110,000.

This is the second time I have had this problem with this SUV. While driving down the road oil pressure light comes on. I pull off the road right away and shut off. Then I noticed trail of oil on road behind me. I get out and look under front of car and see oil running out on to the ground. Cost $700. 00 last time when repaired. Replaced main seal on motor and replaced oil sending unit. Watched you tube video they said looks like main seal leak but is actually oil pressure sensor. Located under intake manifold and oil runs out end of motor. By transmission and looks like main seal leak. But it's just a $18. 00 oil sending unit. That's leaking.

Intake manifold runner code p200a.

The car would lose power while driving then accelerate to speed. This was followed by smoke from the tail pipe. I have returned to the yonkers kia dealership on central park avenue in yonkers NY on August 5th, 2016 to look into a problem. A diagnostic was done and it was determined the engine was ruined do to slug build up. I was told that a replacement would coast about $10,000. Odd for me because my wife and I took the car in for regular oil changes and no indication of engine issues displayed on the dashboard. After speaking to a service representative he stated that I would have to support proof of maintenance on my car which would allow my repairs done under our warranty. I became extremely disillusioned after bringing the car into kia due to an issue that can be tied to the manufacturer. We were denied service under the warranty which we are still under. Our car is fairly new with less than 25k miles. We carried out all of the steps thus far including taking care of our investment, proving our car has been taken care off including keeping meticulous annotations (kept in the log provided by kia) and receipts to date. This is another example of big companies looking for loopholes and using tactics to swindle people of their hard earned paychecks. However, kia does not want to honor us. Our paperwork/log/receipts are being taken apart with prejudice in order to not provide services and rectify this issue that is proven to be a defect. We are concluding that based on the poor handling of our case and many others like ours, kia and its affiliates /dealers and corporate, are not about safety and customer satisfaction. All we ask is that kia honors its warranty rather than finagle use on the fabricated notion that we are at fault rather than poor engineering.

I was driving about 60 mph down 269 highway when all at once I heard a loud pop like sound and then smoke started going out the tail pipe and then under the hood the car lost all power and stopped. I got out and rasised the hood and it was on fire . Luckely someone one was behind me and had a fire exstinquer and put it out. Called police they would not come out called insurance and they sent a tow truck. We bought this car brand new in 2011 and always kelpt it serviced, they took it to the kia lot we bought it from and said it was a fire in the bottom of the engine and it would cost $10,000 to fix it we were still paying on it. So the insurance called it a loss. Now we are out car and no money to boot. I had just took my grandbaby home it could of been really bad. I got on the enternet and found several other 2012 kia Sorentos that had the same problems.

We were told we had a 10 yr, 100000 mile warranty bumper to bumper in Jan 2012 when we bought the vehicle. Last week the airbag light and engine light came on. We took the car to the local kia dealership and was told the warranty didn't cover check engine or airbag problems, even though the dealership service department said they would be covered if the unit was under 5 years old. They want $1000+ to fix the engine light problem on the intake manifold and $1400 to fix the airbag problem. Both units should be under warranty. We had a spare tire problem a month after getting the car. The spare tire was bad and they wanted us to buy a new tire. Nothing we have is covered under warranty it seems. We were told the entire airbag system on the car would not operate unless we paid the $1400 to repair the airbag system.

@ 66,000 miles, the oil pressure switch, located under the intake manifold, is defective and leaked all the oil out of the engine. You cannot replace the switch/sensor without disassembling the engine. Kia will only cover this repair up to 60,000 miles. An internet search shows this to be a common issue. Additionally, its the same switch that is covered under a recall on the 2011 kia Sorento. Kia customer relations said I shouldn't believe what I read on the internet yet it was the internet I used to make my decision to purchase their product. The oil pressure switch should be on the same recall as the 2011 recall. Same problem same switch. Due to the location of the switch and what is required to access it, the coverage should be the same as an interior engine part 10 years, 100,000 miles. The oil drained while driving/running, and spilled while sitting stationary due to the design of the engine. The oil pools on what was described as a "valley pan" then dumps when parked.