Automatic Transmission Control Module Problems of Kia Motor Soul

Purchased a 2020 kia Soul Jan 2020. 2/15/21 I came to a stoplight hit the gas and realize there's no power. Had to put the car in park and restart the engine. Check engine light is on. Go to dealership the check engine light is on the whole time. They tell me the whole of kia's computer systems are down and don't know when they can look at my car. They didn't have a loaner and I had to rent a car. Two days later they tell me the mechanic scanned the car and they couldn't find anything wrong. The check engine light is no longer on. I'm out $125 for the rental car. I pick up the car. 3/3/21 I'm about to drive onto the freeway. I come to a stop before entering the slip road and the engine turns off. I put the car in park and restart the vehicle and again the check engine light is on. I drive it to the dealership and the guy tells me he can't look at it till tomorrow. I said I'm not getting another rental and then have you tell me that there's nothing wrong with it tomorrow, so he took it back to the mechanic who hooked it up. To a device. He came back and said it had shown that it needs a new pcm. I asked what that was and he said it's basically the brain of the computer. (powertrain control module) the car's been in the shop six days now, the dealership is paying for the rental. The odometer reads 8900 miles.

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Last year I took my car to a local dealership to reprogram the pcm due to the recall notice received in the mail related to the catalytic converter overheating issue. Ever since I got that done, I now experience very high idle in cold temperatures. There was no check engine light since last year until today when it dropped below 50 degrees. The code is p050a and kia has no resolution to this problem.

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Error code po5oa car was taken in for 3rd time and this was the actual response from kia engineers bottom line they sold me an unfixable car advice 1: it is recommended to clean throttle body, upgrade pcm grounds, and preform cap discharge, however, unfortunately dtc po5oa is being researched and we do not have a resolution available at this time, there is not eta. Please reset the engine adaptive values and return the vehicle back to the customer. �.

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3rd time check engine light went on in last several months. Error code po5oa car taken to dealer for repair last 2 times most likely repair is reprogram pcm last time at dealer I was told the code was not acknowledged by kia and have seen numerous reports of the same reply with others online. Since the check engine light can be an indicator of some serious issues I do not understand why it seems to be a non issue with the company about fixing the car computer error. 1)car was stationary when starting check engine light stayed on on 10/18/19 driving to dealer the light went off. Dealer indicated completed ecu logic improvement and had po5oa TSB for this code. 26/Dec/19 cold start engine light on dealer preformed diagnostic testing found history code and performed hard reset and rest adaptive values. 1/Mar/20 while driving check engine light went on. Went to autozone and have code po5oa again.

I purchased kia Soul plus with automatic transmission 2 months ago from original owner with 53,000 miles. Vehicle "lagged" momentarily while transmission upshifted. I assumed characteristic of car. Approx. 2 months after purchasing car while driving on freeway with my fianc�' @ approx. 65mph the transmission suddenly & drastically downshifted into (I believe) 2nd or 3rd gear, with no provocation on my part. If my fianc� and I were not wearing seat belts, the sudden change of speed, our heads would have certainly hit the front windshield. My fianc�' is scheduled for spinal cord surgery sometime this month (August). Her neuro-surgeon informed us that another similar situation could possibly cause her to be quadriplegic, or even death. I immediately exited freeway, however, car would not shift past 2nd (or 3rd) gear, limiting car to 30 to 35mph driving home on side streets. Car was parked overnight, and next day drove normal again, for one week. On July 31, 2017 while taking car to citrus kia in ontario, CA, for evaluation of transmission, vehicle did same thing again. Sudden downshift drastically slowing down car to 35mph. Again, would not shift past 2nd (or 3rd) gear. I was only occupant. Aware of kia's TSB #033 outlining tcm's upgrade on transmissions built prior to Aug. 2010, (mine built June 2010) the service writer at citrus kia stated upgrade was done in oct. 2010. I am anxiously awaiting their findings. Hopefully today. (8/1/2017) kia's powertrain warranty is 100,000 miles or 120 months to original buyer, subsequent buyers is 60,000 miles or 60 months. Soul is past 60 months warranty limit having 72 months of service. However, under mileage limits at 56,000 miles. The vehicles transmission problem is most definitely a safety issue which needs to be addressed. Thanks for your time and consideration!.

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