general problems of the 2005 Kia Motor Spectra

Bad shaking in steering wheel and sounds coming from front end. Only when driving on highway.

The contact owns a 2005 kia Spectra. While driving at 20 mph, the steering wheel started to pull to the left. The failure recurred multiple times. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The vehicle was diagnosed, but not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 49,900.

While driving a windy mountain road our 2005 kia Spectra steering locked up as if the car was in park. A kia service department in victorville was unable to figure out what was wrong and they returned the car to us. A few months later the same event happened and the key would not come out of the ignition when the car was in park. The car was under factory warranty however, the service center claimed an adjustment was needed which was not under warranty and we paid $240 to have the adjustment made. Yesterday, the steering locked up again a windy mountain road nearly sending us over the edge of a cliff. Per the kia dealer, vehicles that were manufactured one month after our vehicle's production date had a recall for the same steering problems but that the recall does not apply to our vehicle only those manufactured 30 days after the manufacture date of this particular car.

Vehicle was driven 70 miles before passenger airbag system failed, 1400 miles before I determined the stalling problem was not operator error, and about 90 days before driving at highway speeds and finding a shake in the steering. The vehicle has been taken to the selling dealer 20 times with the airbag problem and steering shake un-repaired. Sc0055 on the airbag issue, reprogramming the sensor(s) and replacing the seat bottom has not eliminated the problem or failures. 7 new tires have been installed and balanced, to include road-force balancing 3 times without correcting the shake in the steering. Vehicle has been test driven hundreds of miles at the dealers request.

We bought a kia Spectra 5 on 06/18/2005, a 2005 model. On 06/19/05 the transmission went out (we were the first owners, less than 100 miles) our kia dealership replaced the car after two weeks of trying to repair the problem, on 07/27/05, my husband stopped at a stop sign and turned right, the car would not come out of the turn (husband said nothing on the car would work, steering froze and brakes failed) he then ran up on a curve car sustained over 2800. 00 dollars worth of damage to undercarriage, wheels, drive shaft etc. Husband suffered bruises and concussion ( I am an rn he did not see physician) reported to insurance CO, insurance appraiser also aware of circumstances and dealer notified, nothing was done. None of the airbags deployed.