Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEERING | |||
| 06/01/2009 | 89250 | 1 | |
| Wheel misalignment and other noticeable stress in steering, or accelerated abnormal tire wear. rattling noise coming from left front end area, not cv axle or strut. *tr | |||
| STEERING - RACK AND PINION | |||
| 08/06/2004 | 3200 | 7 | 06/22/2004 |
| Bought kia optima on june 22, 2004 vin# knagd126645301131 and have since had seven service appointments, replaced two sets of drive belts, replaced a leaking power steering rack, replaced a leaking fuel regulator, machined the front rotors, lost time from work, lost productivity from work as well as jeopardized my wife's work from car pooling for five months, completed scheduled arbitration with the bbb without success for four problems: acceleration delay, low grinding brake noise, low vibration steering noise, and loud squealing noise from the drive belts. *jb | |||
| STEERING - RACK AND PINION - RACK | |||
| 09/01/2004 | 4200 | 3 | 06/22/2004 |
| Irregular occurrences of steering problem, leaking power steering rack. *bf since the initial repair of the power steering rack, the consumer has continued to experience problems with the steering, however the dealer was unable to duplicate the consumers concern. the consumer stated when the vehicle was started in the mornings, there was a second delay in the transmission. *jb | |||