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Just reached 15 500 miles on 2018 gt2. I got a heavy foot and can tell you its quite reliable, according to the dealer im the first in the area needing the last maintenance i did and according to them everything looked good no wear or tare to be found.
 
I'm close to 20K miles and fourteen months. Perfectly satisfied with mine. I have a "heavy foot" about one percent of the time. :D
 
Just reached 15 500 miles on 2018 gt2. I got a heavy foot and can tell you its quite reliable, according to the dealer im the first in the area needing the last maintenance i did and according to them everything looked good no wear or tare to be found.
Can you please share how many times a year u took your car for maintenance and how much was it? Thanks
 
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I have 12k on mine and I have a heavy foot as well. I am also modified and tune. No issues at all.
 
Well, I bought my GT on December 11, 2018, and I now have 2600 miles on it. Plan on taking it in for the first oil change when I get 3000 miles on it. So everything is fine and I am very happy with my choice.
 
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Can you please share how many times a year u took your car for maintenance and how much was it? Thanks

I dont have any paper copies the dealership has it in file.. and altho my account says USA im actuslly in canada.. done 4 oil changes so far going on 5th soon
 
Well, I bought my GT on December 11, 2018, and I now have 2600 miles on it. Plan on taking it in for the first oil change when I get 3000 miles on it. So everything is fine and I am very happy with my choice.

Wow you don't drive much do you? I just hit 4k and going for my first oil change tomorrow. I've had the car about 2 months now :D

EDIT: got my months mixed up, Purchased 3/16/2019
 
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Going for first oil change on Monday and have racked up almost 3500 miles in the first 3 months. I actually thought it was counting miles fast on me because I didn't think I had driven it that much yet.
 
Going for first oil change on Monday and have racked up almost 3500 miles in the first 3 months. I actually thought it was counting miles fast on me because I didn't think I had driven it that much yet.
Oh tell me about it. I bought my GT limited in February 2019 and have driven 6213 miles (10,000 kms) so far in just 3 months. I really don't feel like I have driven so much and there were times I felt the car just kept adding miles.
 
Dang apparently I drive a lot but for me when I'm not in my car driving I'm thinking about being in my car driving I don't care where it is I'm going.
 
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But the manual says first oil change at 6000 mileso_O

If you drive like my grandma :)

Yes it says normal conditions is 6k and Severe which it doesn't go into detail of what that means is 3k. I get free oil changes from the dealership but I assume that's only at 6k I told them I would pay for every other so that I would pay at 3k and free at 6k We decided to split the difference and said they would do the free one at 4k.

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But the manual says first oil change at 6000 mileso_O
My first i did at 5,500 km / 3300 miles and some1 told me the first should be done earlyer because of metal fragments residue may be still sitting in engin block ( i doubt that on new cars were not in the '80s)
 
Dealership told me to run 87 octane because kia tunes the turbos at 87 and not 91 and they also told me i absolutely need synthetic oil every 3k miles
 
My first i did at 5,500 km / 3300 miles and some1 told me the first should be done earlyer because of metal fragments residue may be still sitting in engin block ( i doubt that on new cars were not in the '80s)

So if you do your own you could do it as if it were an small airplane engine.

When you change oil in them your supposed to take the filter apart and inspect it for metal fragments and also send an oil sample off to a lab for analysis. Of course if you car engine fails your suck on the side of the road, if your airplane engine fails your gonna have a really bad day :)
 
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Dealership told me to run 87 octane because kia tunes the turbos at 87 and not 91 and they also told me i absolutely need synthetic oil every 3k miles
No, the tune is for 91 octane, and the car adjusts for lower down to 87 octane minimum. Anyone who says that synthetic needs replacing every 3K miles is a bald faced liar.
 
No, the tune is for 91 octane, and the car adjusts for lower down to 87 octane minimum. Anyone who says that synthetic needs replacing every 3K miles is a bald faced liar.

So what should i do to convert my 87 to 91? Just burn off the rest and put in 91 directly next fuel tank? And what would synthetic lifetime be?
 
I drive my car with care just gonna change the oil accodring what the manual says, six F ing thousand miles later. :)
 
Are they giving you full synthetic, blend or conventional with your free changes?
I dont know I'll be finding out in the morning
 
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