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…
Kia’s 2026 lineup has pushed driver assistance technology further than almost any prior generation. The new K4 comes standard with 16 ADAS features and offers up to 29 depending on trim, while the refreshed Sportage adds Highway Driving Assist 2 and an expanded suite of parking and collision avoidance systems to its already comprehensive lineup….
Every Kia Sportage, Sorento, Stinger, and Telluride rolling off Old Troy Pike onto I-70 is powered by a gasoline direct-injection engine that has a maintenance requirement most owners have never heard of. It has nothing to do with oil changes or tire rotations. It’s about carbon deposits that accumulate invisibly on intake valves from the…
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…
Two months ago, a 2021 Kia Forte with 38,000 miles came in shuddering badly on acceleration and slipping between gears on the merge ramp from Old Troy Pike onto I-75. The owner had never had the DCT fluid inspected and had been dismissing the shudder as a quirk of the transmission for nearly a year….
If you drive a Kia K5 through Dayton on a regular basis, you have already felt the steering wheel shimmy over a rough patch on Old Troy Pike or tighten unexpectedly through a pothole on Brandt Pike. What most K5 drivers do not consider is that every one of those impacts sends a shockwave through…
Last August, a 2018 Kia Sportage came into our service bay with 94,000 miles on the odometer and a rough idle that its owner had been monitoring for about four months on his daily commute between Huber Heights and the Dayton Mall area along OH-4. He had added two bottles of fuel system cleaner to…
Last September, a 2023 Kia Sportage came into our service bay after its owner attempted the Gorge Trail loop at John Bryan State Park with 6,000 miles of overdue service and tires that had not been rotated since purchase. The trail’s limestone outcroppings and creek crossings put enough stress on the already-worn front tires that…
A Kia Sportage owner came into our service bay last month for a routine oil change. She had no specific concerns and her vehicle felt completely normal on her daily commute between Huber Heights and her workplace near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on US-35. During the multi-point inspection that accompanies every oil change at Kia…
