Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN OR OTHER | |||
| 09/16/2009 | 50000 | ||
| I have had intermittent issues with acceleration while driving my 2007 kia optima. when accelerating with the pedal depressed moderately the car will begin to accelerate and then will all of a sudden loose all power. essentially it seems as though the pedal were completely released. when this happens however, i will try and give it more gas to compensate and tried to release the pedal and reapply pressure to no avail. it will usually take five seconds or so until i regain any sort of acceleration. during one occurrence i have to guide the car to the side of the road and stop for before it would respond again. this problem seems to happen within a few minutes of starting the car in the morning and has occurred about ten times in the last year. this is a dangerous problem because it has happened a few times while crossing a busy intersection without a traffic light. i have almost been hit twice. the car will begin to accelerate and then will just coast, which is particularly problematic with oncoming traffic. | |||
| 11/11/2010 | 24500 | ||
| Bought a 2007 kia optima in july 2010, after 3 months had to have brakes and rotors replaced. now only a month later the brakes are bad again. i have to take it to the shop. the back driveside brakes are grinding. the car continues to squeal. i talked to the dealership where i bought the car this is not covered under warranty. however when i bought the car they said there was more than 50% brake pads left. when i changed them the first time they were completely gone in the back on the drivers side. i do not feel that i should have to be replacing the brakes again, just one month later. something is wrong with that. i am not happy with my car or the dealership at the moment. | |||
| 07/28/2010 | |||
| My 2007 kia optima seems to be having issues with the driver side airbag and randomly with the radio/cruise control setting on the steering wheel. my problems did not appear to start until after the steering column was replaced back in october of 2009 due to the noises that was coming from it. the air bag light has recently come on and stays on. one dealer said that the code that they were getting is that clock spring in the steering column need to be replaced again and would not be covered. another dealer states that they are not getting any codes and the air bag would need to be replaced at $1200.00. the noise from the steering column can still be heard and i was told that it is the bearing in the steering column and there is nothing that they can do about that. the issues with the controls on the steering wheel is random and the dealer states that it never duplicates for them. now that the warranty period is over i would have to pay out of pocket even though some of the issues started before the warranty was out and it was supposed to be noted in their system. kia headquarters open up a case with no resolution other than no of the dealers called their helpdesk for help or made any claims of my issues. they suggested they i take the car back and have the dealer call them and reference the case number. i have check to see if there has been in recalls on my particular vehicle and it appears to have not been any. although there have been other kia owners to post this same issues on the internet and basically have the same results there are still no recalls. just the dealers try this and that. the owners paying for what supposed to be the resolution to the problem and it really is not. the problem may go away for a while and then shortly return. it is more like getting the run around with wasted time and money. | |||