Three problems related to car stall have been reported for the 2008 Kia Motor Sportage. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2008 Kia Motor Sportage based on all problems reported for the 2008 Sportage.
My faulty 2008 kia Sportage strikes again. The last 2 major incidences with my kia are documented in my nhta complaint (10621705) occurred on Aug 2013 -w/11k miles( transmission & electrical) and w/12k miles -August 2014 ( alternator &abs pump). It's now January 2017 - car has 17. 5k total miles and I needed to tow my kia Sportage 2008 to a service center after the car stalled on a major road with 2 of my kids in the car. The car is behaving similarly to how it behaved in 2013 � engine knocks as it shifts into gears eventually stalling. In 2013 � kia replaced the transmission and entire electrical system. As I stated in my previous complaint, there must be a design flaw associated with the car since it now appears I have the same transmission/electrical problem again 6k miles later since the last incident . Just learned today that my kia needs a new transmission ! 3 transmissions in 17,000 miles � just doesn't add up.
I was driving the vehicle when it stalled, restarted than stalled again. Had it towed to the dealer who replaced the mass air flow sensor. On 6/25/14 the same happened again (intermit, runs rough then stalls out. This time the dealer found a pin on mass air flow connector was bad and the replaced clip assembly. Today, 06/28/2014 the vehicle stalled out and I had it towed to the dealer who loaned me one of their vehicles because I had to leave my vehicle.
This is part 2 of 3. . . We got a new battery installed at advanced auto. Car ran fine. The next morning , she started the car and then went into the house. My niece was there and said she heard a pop and look outside to see the car on fire. The whole front end including the passenger compartment was burnt to a crisp. I believe what happened was a faulty part in the abs (causing the light to come on) was shorting or something and that kept draining the battery. With the battery low, the battery would die before enough heat could build up, however, with the new battery, it could continue to pull power and heat up whatever faulty part was shorting out and then got hot enough to blow and cause fire. (continued in next post) 3 of 3. . .