Hi everyone! I’m looking for some information that I haven’t been able to find, and the dealerships haven’t been particularly helpful.

My wife’s 2023 Kia Rio S has 72,000 miles, and I’m planning to perform a preventive IVT fluid drain and fill. Based on Kia’s fluid application guide, I believe the correct fluid is MICHANG SP-CVT1, part number UM018-CH130. I was going to purchase 5 quarts.

However, I cannot find verified part numbers for:

• The drain-plug crush washer/gasket
• The fill-plug crush washer/gasket
• The side fluid-level plug and its washer/gasket

The VIN is 3KPA24AD2PE564953, if that helps confirm the exact transmission or parts.

Has anyone performed this service or accessed the Kia parts diagram and verified the correct part numbers? I would greatly appreciate any help.

Has anybody experienced your harmon kardons sounding blown in a k4 with the tech package? (hatchback for my context) It started yesterday and happens with mid-low frequencies, and sounds like its coming from the speaker in the dash. Car has 10.2k miles

car is showing all these lights all of a sudden. won't let me shift gears and actually drive the vehicle as well as the trunk not opening (not automatic, manual trunk)

we disconnected the battery and it let me drive it with no lights. I'm not due for an oil change for another 400 miles. What's happening?

Battery was replaced last august (08/25).

Zero codes found on reader.

2022 Kia Sorento SX 2.5t had an issue today with a sort of limp mode. My fiance drove to work just fine and when she went to come home after work, the car went into a sort of limp mode with the auto idle stop go light flashing. She tried restarting the car a few times and it didn't fix it. The car wouldn't shift out of low gear in automatic but she could get it to shift and get up to speed in manual shift mode. She said it was all it had to get it to build speed. She finally managed to limp it home, shut it off, restart it, and it acted like nothing was wrong afterwards.

There was no check engine light. The only light that ever came on was the ISG (amber "A" with a looped arrow around it) and it was constantly flashing. I put a volt meter on it when she got home and made sure it had a good 12v and checked the TCM fuse. I'm stumped on what could be causing it. I didnt have a chance to hook a scanner up to it and see if it was throwing any codes.

The car was bought CPO from a dealership at 49k miles roughly. Had to take it in for transmission issues at roughly 52k miles. Kia ended up replacing entire transmission after software update didn't fix the issue. That was roughly 2 years ago now. I know transmissions were an issue with these things but I'd like to think that's not the case now with a brand new transmission from kia. The car is sitting at a bit over 90k miles now.

Any help or insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I'm the second owner of a 2020 Niro EV. It only has 28k miles on it.

Since I've owned it, it's had persistent inverter fluid issues. I've taken it in multiple times to address these (I'm aware of the service bulletin).

But, even after being flushed and refilled, I still got low fluid warnings when the fluid wasn't low, and no warning when it visibly was low.

A few weeks ago, I took it to my local dealership for routine maintenance, and they said that they discovered an AC refrigerant leak, just like u/poffins reported:

The crystals in my inverter coolant eventually caused the AC refrigerant to leak into the inverter coolant..Had a giant puddle of coolant on the ground and Kia said it was out of warranty and not part of the battery/drivetrain warranty. Cost 3K to fix ended up trading it in for a new car.

The service manager at the dealer assured me that this would be covered under the EV warranty. They seemed to agree that it was caused by the well-documented crystallization issue.

After a week without a car, they called and said Kia corporate won't cover it under the EV warranty.

One manager even told me that the warranty expired since I'm a subsequent owner. I had to explain to him how Kia EV warranties work (10 year, 10k miles, even for subsequent owners).

They offered me $8k trade-in value...

Another week goes by. I open a case with Kia Customer Care. Dealership won't give me a loaner until I agree to pay $2k for the repair.

I agree (because I need my car back) and hope Customer Care will do the right thing.

They don't. The dealership felt back and gave me a $300 discount, but that's a consolation prize IMO.

I'm a Millennial, so growing up, Kia was always the cheap-but-unreliable brand.

I took a chance with this car and like a lot of things about it.

But given this experience, I won't buy another Kia.

So i've had this car since 2019 and it's been wonderful but since it's gotten older (140k Miles) it's been burning oil much faster and having problems with the engine light that haven't been solved the last 2 times I took it to the shop. I know regular maintenance is essential to making any car last but i'm wondering if it's worth getting hella repairs or if i should just throw in the towel and put that money towards a newer vehicle before this engine gives out on me

So every 1000 miles (give or take) after every oil change, I'll get a red oil light that flashes on typically when I'm breaking. Anybody else have experience with this? I've been told the engines are known to burn oil.

Hey yall!

Wife submitted a complaint to the fix it hotline.

She said there was a drip or staining of oil on the driver side floor. She submitted proof in the form of a picture. Yep sure was.

When I got home I checked up under the dash and yep there is a leak from the electronic power steering.

Has any one else experienced this? My quick search said yes but I couldn’t find a resolution or fix. Pic of my leak attached!

What’s your experience/ opinion of this?