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Date Posted: 11:33:00 01/23/07 Tue
Author: SpectraMan
Subject: Re: warranty won't cover engine..help!!!
In reply to: DLCLML 's message, "Re: warranty won't cover engine..help!!!" on 08:39:45 01/18/07 Thu

>To SpectraMan you seem so smart... if you didn't have
>the manual in your hand to tell everyone to read it...
>you wouldn't seem so smart. It is not nessecary to put
>people down and curse them for their opinion and
>problems w/Kia. You cursing shows your intelligence.
>You have several enteries on this website...Maybe if
>you had a life, you might be able to spend your time
>more wisely than get on this website and harass people
>w/ your brilliance. And 60K is very early to have to
>replace or fix anything even if the manual says you
>should....what a disrespectful idiot you are. Does it
>make you feel big and bad to degrade people in an
>emotional state?
>
>DL

Hey DL:

It's not about being "smart" or feeling "big". It's all about plain old *common sense*. Regardless of all of our opinions on KIA's maintenance schedule, if they manufacturer says to do "X" at time interval "Y", then anyone with half a brain about how the auto industry works will know that you perform the "R"s or required maintenance at the recommended or required times.

At least KIA puts it in black and white for people to read if and react to, unlike Ford's interference engine timing belt debacle in the first 5 years of the Escort. It too had a 60k timing belt requirement, but it wasn't publicized! Luckily for me I had mechanic in the family that quickly clued me in to get my belt changed when the time came.

And I guess why I get a bit "pi-sy" with some people on here is that they ignore required maintenance on their vehicles which then fails catastrophically, and then come on here to cry in their beer and say that they're going to tell "everyone I know to never buy a KIA...blah, blah, blah".

My experience with my car, the company and my local dealership has been nothing but exemplary after nearly 3 years and 30k miles, and I'm coming on here to make sure that there's a little "counter point" discussion matter available for people to read.


So far, my take on Hyundai and KIA are:

If you read the manual and perform all your required maintenance in a way that is sufficiently documentable to them, and on their required timetable, their warranty WILL correct and covered problems you experience. But.... slip up and fail to do the maintenance, and you've just given them a great big legal loophole to jump through, which as a for-profit corporation, they will utilize more often than not.

-SM

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