general problems of the 2020 Kia Motor Telluride - part 2

I had service on my vehicle on 6/1/23. Now my vehicle has lost complete power several times while driving. The vehicle shuts completely down and the hazards or no other function works when this happens. I lifted my hood and open the positive battery box and the vehicle turns back on. When this happens the rear seats automatically move and fold on their own. I have witness to this event happening on 3 occasions. I reported this issue to kia on 6/30 and I have gotten no response from corporate or the dealership service department where the service was performed.

While I was driving my forward collision warning indicator started flashing on my dashboard while a dinging sound went off. There was nothing around me, then my tire pressure warning started going off while my pressure was fine. The indicators would switch back and forth between both warnings, then my mirror sensors were indicating that something was next to both of my mirrors while nothing was there. Then all of my warning indicators began flashing and continued to flash. Once these issues started my back up camer no longer worked while I was in reverse. I brought my vehicle days later when the issue persisted to the place I bought it and they are ordering a new back up camera with no real explanation. Considering this relates to a collision warning something in the vehicle meant to prevent a collision, not working properly my opinion is this is a safety issue.

About a few weeks ago my family and I were on our way to disney for vacation. While on the highway driving around 70+ mph the vehicle suddenly made a big bang sound. The radio shut off and the checkesc (electronic stability control) message popped up on the display. A few miles later it did the same thing. Good thing we had just started our 10 hour drive to be able to take a back road back home doing 55 mph to switch vehicles. Once we got back from our vacation, we took it to a kia dealership. On our way to the dealership the radio was constantly rebooting itself and then the big bang will happen. The dealership said they could not duplicate the issue and fixed the recalls instead and called us to come pick the car up. On our way home from the dealership, the radio again started rebooting itself. We tried to take it to an Hyundai dealership because it’s a lot closer to our house, only to find out when we got there that they don’t have the equipment to electrically work on a kia product. So on our way home from the Hyundai dealership the radio starts doing the same thing and while going over an overpass, it did the bang thing twice. The bang feels like the car is stopping and starting back up really fast while the car is in gear and rpm’s jump up as well. It all starts with the radio constantly rebooting itself nonstop. As of 6/10/23 the car is back at the kia dealership. After explaining and showing recorded videos to the service advisor, they claim the car cannot possibly be repaired unless they are able to duplicate the issue. They think we have an issue with the radio constantly rebooting itself, which we do, but it’s more so of a safety issue of the car shutting itself off while driving. We purchased this vehicle 2 months ago and have put less than 2500 miles on it. Also the other day, we were pulling up to our home and when I put the car in reverse to back in, the car shut off. This has to be the worst purchase we have made. It only has 54,000 mikes on it.

The instrument cluster periodically stops working. The speedometer and tachometer stop working, and all warning lights flash on and off randomly. It shows the doors and hoods opening and closing on the display as well along with other warning lights. The cruse control fails to operate as does the front/side crash warning systems. . . . These warning lights also come on. This is an intermittent problem, it will persist for days and then will stop for part of a day, or multiple days and then return again.

Side view mirror motor is defective (30,000 miles, well cared for). Dealer service department needs to get clearance for repair and do not know when the mirror motor parts will be in. In the meantime, the driver's side mirror cannot be manually adjusted into proper position. This makes left lane changes very risky. Several others owners have also had this issue.

High beams went off. Not showing any errors on dash. Switch seem to be working. High beam sign goes on and off when you try to switch between the low and high beams, but only low beam lights working.

My vehicle is having issues with its digital readings of the temperature and gas miles. I went to get 25$ in fuel yesterday. When I got to the station I had 75 miles to the gallon on the monitor. After adding the 25$ the analog meter changed but not the digital. I had a similar incident in the summer with my temperature guage reading 84 degrees when it was actually 103 degrees outside. It did however pick back up later in the day but now I'm concerned because there's other drivers reporting the same issues on the Telluride forum. I also just had a recall fixed on my vehicle about 2 weeks ago that was an electrical problem as well.

Attempt to open sunroof via sunroof button/normal operation resulted in failure of sunroof track and snapping of support bars. Total amount of times sunroof used less than 10.

My car has heated/air conditioned seats. They have started coming on by themselves. My passenger side mirror opens and closes when it wants to. The the auto off works when it wants to. I have the option of turning that feature off but it will turn off anyways. I can also hear my air condition loud and clear when I turn my car off (decompressing I am guessing) it just started when all these other problems started.

I unlocked the doors to get in the car. I let my son go by the back door (trunk) because his door was blocked by the car parked next to me. He went in and I put my purse in. The car was supposed to be unlocked since I was able to open my door and he made it in. By the time I walked up to my door, all the doors were locked, trapping my son in along with my keys and phone. The doors arent supposed to lock when the keys are in. I had to call 911 to get my son out of there quickly. He is too small to understand how to unlock te doors manually. It is the second time the doors locks while my keys are inside, but the first time with my toddler child in the car. It could have resulted in serious injury or worst.

At a little over 63000+ mileage my vehicle's alternator have gone bad and now sitting in the shop for repairs that are not cover by my warranty because it was a little ove 60000 mileage. On the day my alternator gave in, I was on the freeway and all my hazards lights were lit. The steering wheel stiffen and it was hard to drive, I try to pull over and the vehicle went dead in mid freeway. All blinkers and lights were no longer working too so I was in the mid of a freeway at night in the dark. For all I know someone couldve side swipe me or crashed into me with the sudden power loss. I've only have this supposedly new car off the lot for 3 years with only 63k mileage and the alternator is bad already and drained my whole battery.

High beam headlight system both headlamps are malfunctioned and yes it is available for inspection. Due to high beam headlight system not working when I am driving down hill I am not able to see at a distance in front of my vehicle nor can I see animals jumping out of the road in front of me. My safety is at risk as well as others I meet on the road. Dealer is aware unable to get me in immediately. No warning as a matter of fact the vehicle indicates that high beam lights are working. Upon looking up consumer reviews there have been many complaints regarding this concern which has required kia to replace both headlight assembly systems at the cost of $ 2500. 00 my kia just barely went out of warranty. My issue is these complaints were filed several times since 2020 and these issues have not been placed into warranty as a recall.

Transmission would engage into neutral and anytime. Engine would rpm would inceease, 5-7000rpm without pressing the accelerator. When engine was at high rpm transmission would then engage into gear causing a violent lurching. Transmissionseems to be locked into 5th gear. Transmission would also slip/disengage while trying to accelerate.

Dash gage cluster (tach, speedometer, fuel, and engine temp) all go to zero while driving. The digital speedometer readout is also zero. Basically the entire dash is dead minus the entertainment system which functions perfectly. This also shuts down all adaptive cruise and collision avoidance systems. Restarting the vehical will not bring dash instruments back. Ocassionally cycling to door locks and or disconnecting negative battery lead will bring dash instruments or they will begin randomly begin functioning again on their own. They always malfunction and come back as an entire cluster. I also have video of the vehical in motion with the instruments dead.

Check engine light in March of 2021. 38,800 miles. Determined to be a timing issue and parts of the engine was replaced by bill barth kia in mandan, nd. Car was picked up on 4/21/21. On 4/28/21 all warning lights came on. Car was towed back to dealership. After multiple attempts at fixes over a 4 month period of time it was finally determined a new wiring harness was needed. The new harness seemed to correct the problem and I took possession of the car on 8/20/21. It was driven around 75 miles that day to drive home. On 8/22/21 the car was driven 8 to 10 miles and then parked and turned off in my driveway at 12:35 pm. No warning lights were on at this time. At or around 1:30 pm I was notified by my neighbors that the car was on fire. My husband grabbed an extinguisher and located a 12 inch flame in the front of the car near the engine. It was quickly extinguished. Once the fire was out I opened the door to put the car in neutral to remove/push it from the driveway. All warning lights were on once again. The battery cable was disconnected to hopefully prevent another fire. I have documentation of work done between 3/11/21 and 4/21/21 but all work done after that point is on an invoice that was denied to me by the dealer. I was told I could receive a copy of the invoice once compensation was made to them by kia for a part.

While driving my SUV on the highway the day I purchased it on 6/5/20 it disabled 5 times where I was only able to use brakes and pull off side of road. I was 36 weeks pregnant and had my 2 year old in the car. I didn’t make it home. There was highway construction locally and no edge to pull off on if needed. We could of been seriously injured or died. It was towed to my local kia dealer where they didn’t find anything wrong with it. They replaced the battery. It seemed to be running ok then on 5/5/21 my SUV disabled again only being able to use the brakes and pull over while driving it on a hilly, narrow backroad with someone driving behind me with my 10 month old in the car. Every time this has happened the SUV loses all power and needs to be placed in park to be restarted. The kia dealer has had my SUV for over a week and cannot find anything wrong with it. They reached out to the kia tech line who says they’ve done all the right testing and there is nothing else to do. The kia dealer believes it has an electrical problem that they have not been able to reproduce. There are no warnings before the SUV completely disables. This problem could cause serious injury or death. The dealer is telling me my SUV is ready to be picked up. I refuse to take my SUV back from the dealership. I’ve started iowa lemon law papers 5/6/21 and I’m waiting for the kia manufacturer to receive them certified mail.

The contact owns a 2020 kia Telluride. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign numbers: 20v436000 (electrical system, forward collision avoidance, exterior lighting) and 22v626000 (trailer hitches), however, the parts to do the recall repairs were unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repairs. The vehicle's check engine warning light had illuminated. The vehicle's brakes would suddenly hard break without any warning. The manufacturer was made aware of the issues and failures. The approximate failure mileage was 45,000. Parts distribution disconnect and remedy not yet available. Parts distribution disconnect and remedy not yet available.

After it had rained, the collision warning indicator appeared. It continues to appear every time the vehicle is in use.

Blind spot collision warning system is malfunctions whenever it rains. Vehicle has 3000 miles on it and for the 5th time in 2 months the blind spot system alarm system goes off while driving in the rain. Dealerships refusing to look at the problem unless the engine light is on, which it turns off once the sensors dry off low beam lights are too bright. . . Police have stopped me twice thinking they are high beams. . Also oncoming traffic continues to blast there high beams at our vehicle thinking our high beams are on causing a dangerous driving situation. . Local dealerships refuse to fix warranty problems because car was not purchsaed from them.

My 2020 kia Telluride has had electrical problems since 3 months after purchasing it in June of 2019. It started out small with my backup camera glitching/not being visible, the interior lights flickering, and my heat not working properly. Then, it quickly escalated to multiple emergency lights engaging in my dashboard while driving or stopped. I called the dealership and was told if the codes aren't active they can't service the vehicle, so when it happened again I brought it to them directly. At this time my vehicle wouldn't go in reverse and the steering wheel locked. The diagnostic report stated the car lost communication with fuel pump control module, instrument panel cluster (lpc), control module (ccan),and hvac control module. This happened on two occasions compromising my family's safety. On the 3rd occasion, the following happened: the steering wheel locked, shifter wouldn't work, no lights next to shift, wouldn't go in reverse, no backup camera. On the 4th occasion, the following occurred: warning lights/emergency lights on dash, steering locked, no lights near shifter, steering tight, rpm indicator went to zero, speed went to zero, warning lights switched on an off to different ones. The dealer replaced the floor harness, dash harness, and engine harness. Even after these "fixes" it continued. On the 5th occasion, the emergency lights came on and my vehicle shut off while driving and I lost my brakes! the following occurred before the shut down: forward collision warning light, emergency light, rpm indicator up and down, abs warning light, degree/temp light flickering on and off, plus a few more warning lights. This time my car had to be towed. Kia will not take the car back and denied my claim after supplying over 70 pages of documentation. My car has been in the shop for a total of 84 days since October 19, 2020.