I have read quite a bit on this forum, but never posted. I am not knowledgeable about car mechanics outside of the basics. I thought it may be good to document my experience here, as I have used the postings of others. I have never had a car remotely like this one in any aspect.....power, technology, you name it. To say that I have enjoyed it is an understatement. I drive it pretty hard, but it has always had premium and all the servicing and oil changes down at the dealership. I run 4 gals of E85 with the 93 oct as often as I can, which typically means about a tank out of every third. The majority of my driving is long distance as I use my car for work trips. I got both the extended warranty with premier plus wrap roadside, and the rim and tire protection. I did not want to have to worry about having a reliable ride for work and for taking my daughter to her weekly chemo treatments ALL B Cell.
Last Sunday, I was stopping the gas down on my 2020 RWD GT 2 with about 13K miles on it, and I hear this odd noise, feel a big loss of power, and white smoke comes billowing out of the exhaust. I seriously nearly threw up. I limped back to the house looking like a fog machine. It smelled strongly of burnt oil. At the time, I was running Map 4 with 93 octane and E85. I was not running a log. Previously, I collected several logs but never got around to posting them or learning to read them.
At home, when I was taking my mods off, I noticed that there was a splash of oil below the intake on the left as you face the front of the car. When I took that intake off, there was quite a bit of oil inside the intake hose. The oil was about a quart low. After returning the car to stock, I could kill the car, and it would crank again fine. It idled kind of rough and smoked its ass off. After a while of running the smoke eased off a bit. The CEL was on and there was a message about the ECU having a problem.
Very shortly after all this happening, I had to leave for a long drive to a work site for which I had to get a rental. I was very busy at the work site, but I managed to get my roadside coverage to tow the car to the local dealership. After several days when the service department could look at it, one of my friends got in touch with them. "They said that there was an engine failure and oil had gotten into the turbo's. The engine and the turbo's would need to be replaced." When my friend asked what caused it, they said, "It was nothing that was done. It just had a failure. It would be fully covered."
The problem is that he said that there were also other Kia cars there that were waiting on an engine replacement that had been waiting since November. They were backed up and having a lot of trouble getting the engines from Kia. Maybe because I live in the southern US and the Winter Storm Uri was like a mini apocalypse and shipping is very screwed up. They had no loaners. They did mention that rental cars were covered as a part of the warranty. I'm currently trying to figure that out.
On a personal note, it could not have come at a worse time. It was my only car. Besides using it for work, my daughter's leukemia relapsed and she went back into St. Jude's which is 4 hours away. Due to covid restrictions, I have not been able to see them since she was admitted three weeks ago. I have been waiting for my chance to get up there as soon as she is able to be outpatient. Needless to say, I am busy trying to obtain a ride until whatever time I can get my car back.
I will post updates.
Last Sunday, I was stopping the gas down on my 2020 RWD GT 2 with about 13K miles on it, and I hear this odd noise, feel a big loss of power, and white smoke comes billowing out of the exhaust. I seriously nearly threw up. I limped back to the house looking like a fog machine. It smelled strongly of burnt oil. At the time, I was running Map 4 with 93 octane and E85. I was not running a log. Previously, I collected several logs but never got around to posting them or learning to read them.
At home, when I was taking my mods off, I noticed that there was a splash of oil below the intake on the left as you face the front of the car. When I took that intake off, there was quite a bit of oil inside the intake hose. The oil was about a quart low. After returning the car to stock, I could kill the car, and it would crank again fine. It idled kind of rough and smoked its ass off. After a while of running the smoke eased off a bit. The CEL was on and there was a message about the ECU having a problem.
Very shortly after all this happening, I had to leave for a long drive to a work site for which I had to get a rental. I was very busy at the work site, but I managed to get my roadside coverage to tow the car to the local dealership. After several days when the service department could look at it, one of my friends got in touch with them. "They said that there was an engine failure and oil had gotten into the turbo's. The engine and the turbo's would need to be replaced." When my friend asked what caused it, they said, "It was nothing that was done. It just had a failure. It would be fully covered."
The problem is that he said that there were also other Kia cars there that were waiting on an engine replacement that had been waiting since November. They were backed up and having a lot of trouble getting the engines from Kia. Maybe because I live in the southern US and the Winter Storm Uri was like a mini apocalypse and shipping is very screwed up. They had no loaners. They did mention that rental cars were covered as a part of the warranty. I'm currently trying to figure that out.
On a personal note, it could not have come at a worse time. It was my only car. Besides using it for work, my daughter's leukemia relapsed and she went back into St. Jude's which is 4 hours away. Due to covid restrictions, I have not been able to see them since she was admitted three weeks ago. I have been waiting for my chance to get up there as soon as she is able to be outpatient. Needless to say, I am busy trying to obtain a ride until whatever time I can get my car back.
I will post updates.
