Interesting Discoveries Thread (Good or Bad)

[Chris]

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Heat and water will get that out. The trick is to get the leather to absorb some water as it dries it will shrink. I have had good success with this in the past. A good tutorial can be found here:

How to Remove an Indentation From Leather Seats

 

[StingerGTandMe]

Heat and water will get that out. The trick is to get the leather to absorb some water as it dries it will shrink. I have had good success with this in the past. A good tutorial can be found here:

How to Remove an Indentation From Leather Seats

I hope this can help him

 

[AV8R]

Not really. If you look at my photo you'll see a few lighter marks that were a bit worse than they are now. That big ugly one remains. This damage occurred 3 days ago.

Take it back to dealer and get them to fix it. Bad design.

 

[AV8R]

noticed the leather isn't the greatest, i scuffed side seat first time got it, had to slide the seat back. grrrrrrrrrrr

Nappa leather?

 

[oxide365]

Nappa leather?

standard leather

 

[AV8R]

I don’t think all the leather in seats is leather that’s why.

 

[Euljiro1ga]

You can adjust this. use the little switch/knob/whatever you want to call it that you normally use to adjust the speed of the wipers. That will also adjust the sensitivity in you are on 'auto'

Oh, thank you. I didn't think of it. Will do that.
Now that I got my windshield coated, I try to use the wiper as little as I could, not to damage the coating, plus the rain now beads off the windshield quite nicely by itself anyway. So the auto wiper will likely be kept off, but still good to know I can adjust the sensitivity. Thanks.

 

[Gdank]

There were a few things I didn't know from Doug Demuro's review. See here for thread :

Doug DeMuro's Kia Stinger GT review

 

[Dennis]

Good:
The windscreen and both front door glass are accoustic glass. Surprising as it comes standard as the other major luxury brands in the similar category charges extra or not available.

Bad:
HUD does not show radio station, track or file when changing between songs, only mode is displayed. Turn by turn not shown when using nav through android auto.

Reverse camera can be of higher resolution.

 

[Kazz]

Yes, I would assume that turn-by-turn in the HUD is dependent upon using Kia's built-in Nav.

 

[Dennis]

Unfortunately build in Nav not available here. Hopefully software update will enable Android auto and Apple car play nav turn by turn instructions to be displayed on HUD.

 

[Kazz]

I think that'd be a stretch for Kia to supply given they would have to work with 3rd parties who can change their app at any time.

 

[Chris]

I think that'd be a stretch for Kia to supply given they would have to work with 3rd parties who can change their app at any time.

I don't know about apple, but I have looked at the Android auto APIs they do have an API for turn by turn directions. So any manufacturer can if they want, read that api and project the turn by turn to the HUD. For all you "non-tech" folks, an API is a piece of code that allows a 3rd party access to parts of a program. They are usually guaranteed not to change the output, so no matter what happens to the core software the API still spits out the same info. IMO we as consumers don't see this more often because 99% of manufacturers charge 1000 or more for their nav features. No one would buy the nav if AA did all of it for the consumer..

 

[mldavis2]

Better than the one I got in both my BMW and Skoda Octavia, which start wiping, after I crashed into the car before me. Thus I always considered rain sensors completely useless.

Yes, I always thought rain-sensing wipers were more of a gimmick than a help. In my part of the country, the rain is not a constant and the rate varies as you drive through it. I'm always increasing or decreasing the automatic pause speed of my wipers so often I just give up and manually hit a swipe when I need it in the mist. Eager to see how the Stinger implements that function....

 

[Never thought]

Good:
The windscreen and both front door glass are accoustic glass. Surprising as it comes standard as the other major luxury brands in the similar category charges extra or not available.

Bad:
HUD does not show radio station, track or file when changing between songs, only mode is displayed. Turn by turn not shown when using nav through android auto.

Reverse cam can be of higher resolution.

My HUD shows the radio station changing. You may want to go in your HUD settings to see if there is an option to turn it on.

 

[StingerChick]

A few I've come across:
If you open the door and take off your seatbelt with it in gear, it automatically shifts to park.

If you're low on gas, a pop-up appears on the nav screen asking if you want to search for gas stations.

The panic horn is hilarious; sounds like something off a kid's toy car.

Is this with car on and off? Or do you have to open door before removing seat belt?

 

[Bear]

A few I've come across:
If you open the door and take off your seatbelt with it in gear, it automatically shifts to park.

If you're low on gas, a pop-up appears on the nav screen asking if you want to search for gas stations.

The panic horn is hilarious; sounds like something off a kid's toy car.

I tried opening the door and taking the seatbelt off while in drive also tried taking off seat belt and opening door and it never went into park.

Curious what other variables/settings were at play when it did this for you.

 

[eljay]

HUD does not show radio station, track or file when changing between songs, only mode is displayed.

My HUD shows the radio station changing. You may want to go in your HUD settings to see if there is an option to turn it on.

I never noticed mine showing the station until yesterday--I was listening to a station with a signal that cut out occasionally along the foothills, and every time it came back in, the HUD displayed it. I assumed it shows when a station first comes on, but when I switched stations, this wasn't true. On my old car, it also displayed when I adjusted the volume, but that didn't help, either. I'll try to pay more attention to this, but a good explanation from you guys about exactly what it should be doing would be welcome. (Or I guess if I have to, I could read the doorstop manual. )

 

[CO-bound]

I tried opening the door and taking the seatbelt off while in drive also tried taking off seat belt and opening door and it never went into park.

Curious what other variables/settings were at play when it did this for you.

I figured it out; it's if you open the door, with the seatbelt unlatched, and then lift the brake. I remember now I was trying to park and was too close to the curb to get out; I restarted the car and tried to ease forward a bit and it slammed into Park.

 

[Scorpio Redux]

I read-on the forum for a different model Kia-that the auto-dimming inside rear view mirror will revert to "bright" whenever the transmission is shifted to Reverse.