Summer vacation season means packing up the Telluride, loading the kids and the cooler, and heading out on I-70 or I-75 for a long-awaited family trip. But before the suitcases go in the back, a multi-point inspection that often costs little to nothing is a lot easier to schedule than dealing with a $500 to…
The 2026 Kia K4 lineup actually runs two different engines depending on trim. The standard 2.0-liter engine found on the LX, LXS, EX, and GT-Line trims uses multi-point fuel injection, a more traditional setup where fuel sprays into the intake tract and naturally washes the intake valves clean with every cycle. The GT-Line Turbo’s 1.6-liter…
A dashboard lit up with warning lights is one of the more unsettling things a Kia owner can face on the morning commute. The instinct is to assume something significant has gone wrong with the engine, the brakes, or an advanced safety system. What many Dayton drivers don’t realize is that a significant portion of…
Last July, a Kia Sportage came into our service bay on a flatbed after the owner had been stranded on I-70 near the Huber Heights exit. The serpentine belt had snapped completely, taking the power steering, alternator, and air conditioning with it in an instant. The owner had noticed a faint squealing sound on humid…
The map on your Kia’s navigation screen looks right until the day it doesn’t. A new interchange opens on I-70, a road gets rerouted near Huber Heights, and suddenly the system is confidently directing you somewhere that no longer exists the way it used to. Software and navigation updates on modern Kia vehicles cover a…
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…
Last Memorial Day weekend, a 2022 Kia Telluride broke down 250 miles from home on I-71 near Columbus during a family’s spring vacation to Cedar Point. The cooling system had developed a slow leak over winter that the owner never noticed during short Dayton-area commutes. Under sustained highway operation with the SUV fully loaded with…
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….
