general problems of the 2011 Kia Motor Soul

While driving my car just started accelerating in traffic and I couldn’t get it to stop even while hitting brakes trying not to hit another vehicle. Fortunately found a way to pull to side of road and throw in park and it was still revving up and didn’t stop til I turned off car completely. So terrifying. Now I’m [xxx] trying figure out how I’m going to get back home in this dangerous vehicle. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

When you press the break the car stalls, when you fuel up the car it will not start. Autos unlimited in rolla, mo sold it as inspected with "" nothing "" on the inspection sheet. This dealer is claiming they will "fix: this issue. It cost me 480. 00 to fix it. --- evap canister purge vent- evap leak- fuel malfunction- canister solenoid.

After getting fuel, the car stalls immediately. I have to push the gas petal and give it several pushes to get it to go. Sometimes it stalls while driving. It will turn off randomly especially after pressing the break pedal. It turns off, and all the warning lights turn on. Then it totally turns off all sources of power to it. Bluetooth microphone has not worked since I got it with 30 miles on it. Now it has 136,000.

My engine light has been going off and one no problem driving the problem is when I put gas in car the car want start until I give it gas a little. I don't have problem to crank car. And after I crank my car after I pump the gas to start it. There is no problem only when I get gas. It goes off maybe after a long while but then come back on when gas get to low and then problem starts all over again. I have ask kia dealer about recalls all the time they say all recalls on vehicle are done. I have read several times about fuel problem or pipe that cause fires on vechicle. I read as recent as Jan 18 there was recall in another country on this . The light went off Jan 15 but came back on jan18.

Kis consuming oil, the oil indicator doesn't turn on until after the oil stick shows no oil in the engine and then it only blinks occasionally.

Tl-the contact owns a 2011 kia Soul. The contact stated that while driving 3 mph, the accelerator pedal fractured. The police were contacted and stated that the vehicle was potentially subject to NHTSA campaign number: 15v123000 (vehicle speed control). A dealer was not made aware of the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and provided the contact with case number: 12862172. The contact was referred to the dealer and the manufacturer stated that there was no recall on the vehicle. The failure mileage was approximately 55,000. Ad.

Traffic came to an abrupt stop and iv rear ended ov1 which pushed ov1 into ov2 which was pushed into ov3. Vehicle in question (kia Soul) was the iv. The iv suffered extreme front-end damage and was totalled. The air bags did not deploy. The officer at the scene and the towing company driver were adament that the force exterted by the iv and the damage incurred should have deployed the air bags. Driver of the iv suffered injuries from being slammed into the steering wheel (chest) and dash board (knees).

The clutch and fly wheel wore out on the car at 22k miles. This is extremely early for a clutch to fail. The clutch failed on a busy highway (I-81) and I was forced to pull over in an unsafe location. I have driven manual transmissions for many years and have never had a clutch fail at such a low mileage.