A Kia Sorento owner came into our service bay last April after a hydroplaning event on US-35 westbound near the Huber Heights interchange during a heavy afternoon rain. She had been running all-season tires that had 28,000 miles on them and had been planning to replace them before summer. The hydroplaning event caused her to…
A Kia Sorento came into our service bay last month for a routine oil change. The owner had no specific concerns and the vehicle felt completely normal on his daily commute on Old Troy Pike and the I-70 corridor toward Columbus. During the multi-point inspection that accompanies every oil change at Kia of Dayton, our…
The Patterson family drove up from Cincinnati last spring for their first visit to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Springfield Street in Fairborn. They were in a rented sedan with no driver assistance features and spent the better part of an hour navigating the SR-4 and Springfield Street interchange, managing merge…
A 2026 Kia Carnival came into our service bay two weeks ago, four days before the owner’s family was scheduled to leave for a summer road trip to Cincinnati on I-75. The rear-seat entertainment screens had developed an intermittent blackout issue and the second-row climate vents were producing noticeably weaker airflow than the front cabin….
Last month, a Kia EV3 owner came in from Vandalia six weeks after taking delivery after noticing his displayed range had been consistently lower than the EPA estimate from the first week of ownership. He had assumed the gap was normal and hadn’t raised it at delivery because he didn’t know what questions to ask…
Last month, a Kia Sportage owner came in from Trotwood after noticing he had been filling up noticeably more often over the past several months without any change in his driving routine. He assumed fuel prices had simply shifted his perception and kept driving his normal commute on I-70 and through the Huber Heights surface…
Last month, a Sorento owner came in from Vandalia after realizing she had skipped three consecutive oil changes over the past year and a half. Between a busy schedule, the cost of each individual service visit, and the mental friction of scheduling, she had simply let it slide. When she finally came in, the oil…
Last April, a 2023 Kia Telluride experienced complete rear brake failure on I-75 near downtown Dayton while fully loaded with a family of seven heading to spring break. Months of winter salt exposure had corroded the rear caliper slide pins to the point of seizure, causing the caliper to overheat and boil the brake fluid….
Three weeks ago, a 2022 K5 GT-Line came into our Old Troy Pike service bay with a rough idle and reduced fuel economy. The owner commuted 70 miles daily between Huber Heights and Columbus on I-70 but had been stretching oil changes to 10,000 miles because “highway miles are easy miles.” After 42,000 miles of…
