Help! Kia Stinger Gt transmission slipping with only 87k miles!

[Jay 2018 stinger gt]

Hi everyone, I have a 2018 Kia Stinger GT TT with 87k miles. It is my wife’s car and she baby’s it. My brother was recently taking us to the airport on it and on the way back the transmission randomly started slipping like crazy. He barely got moving from a stoplight when it turned green that’s how bad it was slipping. Now that I got home I tried it for my self. Reverse seems to work good, but when I put in drive it revs up and goes a little bit, but slips so bad as if my tires are spinning on ice. It is not drivable. A few things I did notice with the car throughout this year since we have owned it is that when I want to accelerate to go around someone on the freeway it shifts very hard and jerks forward every so often. Also, when I shift the car back into drive from reverse it takes a couple of seconds to shift back into drive. Would really appreciate any advice y’all can give me. Thankyou.

 

[Kia Stinger]

Hi everyone, I have a 2018 Kia Stinger GT TT with 87k miles. It is my wife’s car and she baby’s it. My brother was recently taking us to the airport on it and on the way back the transmission randomly started slipping like crazy. He barely got moving from a stoplight when it turned green that’s how bad it was slipping. Now that I got home I tried it for my self. Reverse seems to work good, but when I put in drive it revs up and goes a little bit, but slips so bad as if my tires are spinning on ice. It is not drivable. A few things I did notice with the car throughout this year since we have owned it is that when I want to accelerate to go around someone on the freeway it shifts very hard and jerks forward every so often. Also, when I shift the car back into drive from reverse it takes a couple of seconds to shift back into drive. Would really appreciate any advice y’all can give me. Thankyou.

Welcome. Just noting that this topic has been moved into the Stinger Drivetrain forum.

 

[AWDGT2]

Symptom of low fluid. There is a way you can check it. The link below is a tutorial I did on swapping the transmission fluid but it shows you how to check it.

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stingertop20.com

 

[Snowwhite]

if you are the original owner, should be covered under 10year/100k mile warranty, but yes I'd also do a fluid swap before panicking. Mine's got 31k and I'm having the dealer flush the fluid this week.

of greater concern if it is low fluid, how the fluid got out since this is a pretty well sealed unit.

 

[BIG-D]

 

[Ah GetFd]

87,000 miles is a lot.

Expect things to be going wrong at that stage.

Put it this way.

A car in Australia with 100,000kms (60,000 miles) is nearing end of life

Most people would get rid of a car about then and it would go into the bomb yards down the road

 

[Alpinesting]

Hmm.. Since we all know that these are hydraulic systems I would bet it is leaking or has leaked?? I would get a look under
the car. Clutch packs or plugged filter?

 

[Alpinesting]

Anecdotally, I once drove my 66 Chevelle home in reverse because I lost all forward gears thru an adjacent neighborhood which was near
my place of employment to get home and had to eventually get on a main road for about 600 ft going backwards...I can't imagine what
other drivers were thinking at the time. Aww the younger years! Got the powerglide fixed with a shift kit and back on the road in a couple weeks!

 

[GT Elite]

87,000 miles is a lot.

Expect things to be going wrong at that stage.

Put it this way.

A car in Australia with 100,000kms (60,000 miles) is nearing end of life

Most people would get rid of a car about then and it would go into the bomb yards down the road

I disagree that 87,000 km’s is a lot. I have had a number of cars (Nissan 300ZX, Firebird Tran, C4 Corvette and C6 Corvette) that had over 300,000 kms on them when I sold them. I will say that at about every 160,000 kms a bunch of maintenance and parts replacement is required, but once all those problems were dealt with, the cars were good for another 160,000 kms.When I sold these cars, everything still worked.

 

[Thomby]

I disagree that 87,000 km’s is a lot.

He has some...interesting takes. I wouldn't assign them much weight. Even 40 years ago, "nearing end of life" at 60k miles is hilarious.

The service schedule goes out to 90k miles and doesn't list an ATF change under normal use, but under the severe use schedule it says to replace every 60k miles (100k kilometers), so at 87k km it probably wouldn't hurt:

https://www.stingerforum.org/threads/kia-stinger-schedule-maintenance-interval.451/