Clutch Problems of Kia Motor Sportage

- the contact owns a 1997 kia Sportage. The vehicle was overheating. The contact said that the used car dealer replaced the radiator and the main hose. The vehicle continued to overheat, and when diagnosed ,the contact was told the overheating was due to the clutch overheating and the fan sticking. The contact didn't think that transmission oil was circulating throughout the vehicle properly. There were no warning indicator lights. The vehicle currently will not start. The dealer was no longer in business.

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2001 kia Sportage temperature gauge never registered that the engine was running hot. The consumer had to have the engine replaced. The coolant sensor malfunctioned, the rear hatch panel inside fell off, new clips were installed. Replaced manual transmission clutch, timing belt was replaced, wind noise from front passenger side door area.

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Since purchase of vehicle I have had problems with cel coming on and staying on, I have had problems with clutch, the belts, and recently the emission systems, each time I go in the people at the dealer ship act like I am doing these things on purpose and this last time they told me that my warranty had expired. And that it would cost 1,000 dollars to fix. I was out raged.

The wind leaks were an ongoing anoyance and I had to take the car back several times and finally gave up with an improvement but no fix. The dealer said kia acknowledged the problem but had no fix. The shift sensor and solenoid failure made the car so it could not shift gears and the key could not be removed from the car! this within days of the warrenty expiration and and with less than 16k miles on the car. This should be checked to see if its symtomatic and a recall started if it is.

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I feel that the kia Sportage is a poorly made vehcle and should be bought back from all owners.

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Noise caused by material used in clutch.

While coming to a stop at 10mph driver tried to down shift and vehicle would not go into gear. Dealer said vehicle needed a new transmission/ clutch.

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