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…
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…
A Kia Sorento owner came into our service bay last month after developing a persistent engine tick during his morning commute on US-35 between Huber Heights and the Dayton Mall area. He had been stretching his oil changes to 9,000 and 10,000 miles on a driving pattern that was almost entirely stop-and-go surface street and…
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 new Kia K4 Hatchback came into our service bay with just 9,400 miles on it. The owner had hit a particularly rough patch on I-70 near the Huber Heights interchange and hadn’t thought much of it afterward. By the time she came in, her front tires had developed an uneven wear pattern…
