Kia stinger Quality control is N/A

[Nocostinger]

I have many friends who come from German brands... primarily Audi, BMW, and MB... well VW too... but I have two close cool cats I know who both have had multiple Audi products in the past (2010 S4, 2014 S4, 2009 R8 V8, drawing a blank on the others) and they swear those cars are bulletproof and perfectly reliable inside and out.

As I said before, and I will say it again... all brands have their lemons and unreliable cars... certain brands though (statically speaking) have a higher amount of problems to go wrong with their cars than others...

I had to go to the dealership five times to fix my brake problems within a six month period of a brand new car. Does that mean the Stinger is garbage and unreliable? No... probably not... But seeing first-hand how poorly the dealerships communicate with corporate and how everyone is backwards with how they work on things is not confidence-boosting to say the least.

Also, and I don't remember if I wrote about this before, but when I was cross-shopping and test driving cars before getting my current Stinger... I remember one of the three 3.3TT models I test drove went into a strange "limp mode" after the first launch... the sales guy doing the drive with me called his manager to take a look and the manager said he had never seen that issue before and said it was probably a fluke. This was on the 2020 GT1 with AWD. The other two stingers, both GT... but one was RWD and the other AWD... did not have this weird thing happen during the test drive. Of all the cars I have test driven, whether for myself or family or friends, I have never experienced one having such an awkward hiccup before lmfao.

From my experience, the communication issue has been from Kia corporate to my local dealership. I've literally looked over my service advisors should and watched him send the email. Not that I didn't believe he was doing his job, he wanted to show me that he was because of his frustration with Kia corporate. We all had a pretty great laugh about lighting Kia up on their facebook posts with pics showing the problem with the car. Good times.

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

From my experience, the communication issue has been from Kia corporate to my local dealership. I've literally looked over my service advisors should and watched him send the email. Not that I didn't believe he was doing his job, he wanted to show me that he was because of his frustration with Kia corporate. We all had a pretty great laugh about lighting Kia up on their facebook posts with pics showing the problem with the car. Good times.

lmfao that's so funny...

Yeah idk... at the end of the day it's Kia... they're not expected to be taken seriously so they avoid higher level communication and effort... but I know the company has potential... they need to just hire people that take things more seriously and communicate better...

 

[stoopid]

The internet tends to magnify issues. More people are quick to post complaints then people with zero issues (no news = good news).

In general Kia sells more cars with fewer issues than many other high volume manufacturers. It's simply an odds game, and you're betting on the horse with the best odds. Betting doesn't guarantee the horse will win every race.

Numerous issues requires a change of dealership providing warranty work (if possible, not all areas have multiple Kia dealers), or filing a lemon law claim. That's why laws are in place. Use them or not, but don't complain once you have legal cause and don't act on it.

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

The internet tends to magnify issues. More people are quick to post complaints then people with zero issues (no news = good news).

In general Kia sells more cars with fewer issues than many other high volume manufacturers. It's simply an odds game, and you're betting on the horse with the best odds. Betting doesn't guarantee the horse will win every race.

Numerous issues requires a change of dealership providing warranty work (if possible, not all areas have multiple Kia dealers), or filing a lemon law claim. That's why laws are in place. Use them or not, but don't complain once you have legal cause and don't act on it.

Very well put!

 

[Readyakira]

That's insane! And TWO stuck open door latches on the same car?? The misalignment has an easy fix; this was shared on here well over two years ago, as I recall; a single instance of misalignment; the pic was pretty stupid; you could have seen that drop in the rear edge of the door from thirty feet away it was that bad. Once fixed, problem gone. But stuck door latches? How do you explain TWO of them on the same car? Wouldn't that count as two failures? What are the chances? If that is literally how the "law" is worded, it is stupid.

Ford has had many many recalls for the exact same issue. It's called cutting corners. Old fashion door latches rarely did this. But now latches have a ton of plastic in them. Water gets in the inner door skin much more these days.