I, Rebecca Rhynes, bought a 2019 Kia Forte’ from Boomer - rebeccaann0131
I, Rebecca Rhynes, bought a 2019 Kia Forte’ from Boomer Kia in January of 2020. It came with a three-year, 75,000 mile warranty that is extensive and covers both the transmission and the engine. In December of 2022, with less than 70,000 miles and close to two full months before my warranty was up, I took my Kia Forte’ in to Boomer Kia’s service department to find out why my RPM’s were racing up to 4,000 but it wouldn’t “catch” to actually make the car move. It also was running horribly. Once taking it to Boomer Kia’s service department, it took over two weeks to get a final answer as to what was wrong with my fairly new car. Lawson, the service manager, finally called me and said that my transmission had a fatal error and would be replaced completely under the warranty. He also stated my engine needed close to $4,000 worth of work but that they would not be covering this because they believed the problems were due to my lack of doing oil changes. I assured them my oil changes were done within the recommended timeframe, just not done by the dealership or any oil change companies that report to CarFax and that was what their decision was based upon. And that they saw “sludge” in the engine they believe could have caused the problem. After trying to come up with $3,550+ to fix the engine, finally I was able to request my Indian Tribe help me pay for it, and they did! Once it was fixed, three weeks later and $3,550+ paid, I was able to drive my car for approximately 30 days when my engine had a catastrophic failure….again! Basically a piston BROKE and their only recommendation is to replace the engine at $7,500! At this point, the engine failure cannot be blamed on supposed engine sludge, as they cleaned all of that out! But, of course, they still will not replace the engine that was always a bad engine and was never my fault, while it was still under warranty. They need to replace my engine as they did my transmission so I can have my car back! DON’T BUY A KIA!!!
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