The contact owns a 2013 Kia Optima. While driving 77 mph, the vehicle stalled without warning. The contact noticed smoke under the hood of the vehicle followed by flames. A police report was not filed. The fire department extinguished the fire. There were no injuries sustained. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 78,000.

- Corona, CA, USA

Turbo charger malfunction. Mechanic stated that the issue should have been covered under warranty as there was no other indicators as why it failed. It resulted in loose bolts, the complete turbo charger needing to be replaced, and all new hoses.

- Milton, FL, USA

The engine powered off automatically after thatt, dutch boar becomes to lightning all the icons, so it still never power in.

- Calexico, CA, USA

The contact owns a 2013 Kia Optima. While driving 75 mph, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was towed to a mechanic who diagnosed that the motor seized, which caused the vehicle to stall. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 94,000.

- Killeen, TX, USA

I have a 2013 Kia Optima, while I was driving my engine seize, I could have gotten into a major car accident. My car stopped on me in the middle of traffic I am pursuing a class action lawsuit against Kia.

- Milwaukee, WI, USA

My engine started knocking at 82,000miles lost power on rode had car towed home

- Gresham, OR, USA

Engine fail locked up 82,000

- Gresham, OR, USA

I was on my way home from work, and at the light I noticed my engine started knocking a little but there was no check engine light, oil light, etc notifying me of any problem. I gave it a little gas to get up the hill and my car shut off almost instantly and I was in the middle of traffic helplessly trying to get over. I had my car towed to a Kia dealer for a diagnostic and was told the engine was blown and Kia wasnt honoring my engine replacement.

- Baltimore, MD, USA

On Nov 18 2016 while driving down a major highway my car just shut off. All the lights light up on the dash and before I pulled over, I was drifting to the side of the road. I gotten the car to ancira Kia in san antonio tx where it sat till Dec 28 2016 before receiving a call. The dealership had said the warranty would not cover what had happen. The first excuse they said was due to sludge in the engine. After providing receipts showing the car maintenance, they said it was due because I let my car seat for a year while I was deployed. After asking how this could be if the car wasn't moved, they said they found metal shavings in my engine. Kia had my car close to 60 days fighting with me on why they would not fix my car. It forced me to trade the car in so I can go to work and provide for my family. My question is, if there's a recall on my car how would I go about failing paperwork ?

- San Antonio, TX, USA

The contact owned a 2013 Kia Optima. While the contact's aunt was driving approximately 40 mph, the vehicle stalled and the check engine warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle continued to roll, so the driver steered the vehicle to the side of the road and applied the brakes to stop the vehicle. The driver noticed smoke coming from the hood of the vehicle. The passenger of the vehicle lifted the hood and noticed flames. Both occupants moved away from the vehicle. The vehicle was destroyed and towed. The fire department filed a report and there were no injuries. The contact's insurance company was unable to identify the cause of the failure. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 20,000.

- Metairie, LA, USA

I just recently had my local dealer due my routine oil change on my 2013 Kia Optima ex. About two weeks from when this was done. I started to notice some sluggish in my engine performance and then after hearing a low knocking sound from the engine. I decided to check the engine oil level to see if I was low due to a past experience with a car having a bad valve cover gasket. So, when I checked my oil level on the dipstick it was between the low and full line. Thinking that this was just maybe due to the possibility that the dealer had not put enough oil in during the oil change. I just bought two quarts of 5W20 engine oil to bring the oil back to the full line on the dipstick and not visually seeing any signs of oil leaking anywhere. However, just one week from when I added the two quarts of oil. I started to hear the knocking sound again and to find out that I am down 1 quart of oil. I decided then to park my car under a piece of cardboard for a day and do a thorough look for any signs of oil leaking in the engine but, I did not come across any oil leaking anywhere. I decided then to do some research on the internet to see if other Kia owners were having this issue and found that many other Kia owners with this gdi motor are having this same issue with some owners have the motor seize due to the engine oil being lost in the engine by defective connecting rods that fail in the engine. I have even found out that Hyundai has a recall on this same engine that is being used in my 2013 Kia Optima. My concern now is that if Kia ends up acknowledging this eventually as a recall that the warranty will be more than 10 years or 120, 000 miles as with my highway travel commute daily to work I am over this mileage. I will be making an appointment with the Kia dealer tomorrow to see what they will be able to do and what it might cost before I lose my engine.

- Pittstown, NJ, USA

Car we're not keep running it cuts off engine locked up.

- Meridian, MS, USA

The contact owns a 2013 Kia Optima. While driving 60 mph, the rpms increased rapidly without warning. In addition, the remote push to start stopped working and the vehicle would not start. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 42,000.

- Goleta, CA, USA

The contact owns a 2013 Kia Optima. The contact stated that the vehicle required to be jump started several occasions in order to start. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the alternator was drained and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 30,000. The VIN was not provided.

- Paducah, KY, USA

I bought my 2013 Optima sxl with 26K miles. I was driving home from work and my car now has under 32K miles on it, and started shaking with smoke coming out from the hood and it turned off. Tried to turn it back on but it was dead I called road side assistance to get it towed to a Kia dealership. Next day I get a call from the service department and they said the engine was blown and that the extended warranty wont cover it due to sludge found on the engine wtf!! it's a new car! so to get it fixed they are charging me $9,400 dollars that's a lot of money. And I keep calling them asking why the warranty doesn't want to cover the charges and they say it's because of the sludge found due to poor maintenance which is nothing but bs. I don't even have a yr with this car and now I don't know what to do. And the sad thing is that I have seen a lot of reviews with the same problem and Kia is not doing nothing about it. I will have to get a repo because I can't keep paying for a junk car. I will never buy from Kia ever in my life.

- Hockley, TX, USA

Took car to dealer a month ago for siren noises as I excelerated. They told me it was my turbo casing that came open and that they closed it for me. I called them an hour later after I had left to tell them it was still making the noise they said it will and should make the noise. Took the car back today for same issue and for the engine light being in now for a 6 days. Now they tell me I have sludge in my engine and will blow at any time so I need a new engine and will let me know if warranty will cover it or not. I'm not even at 60K miles yet but they say I'm almost expired for warranty. I bought this brand new end of January 2013. The noise was happening when stationary, and when excelerating to drive and speed up with flow of traffic.

- Grove City, OH, USA

My vehicle is a 2013 Kia Optima and today a very horrible and scary situation happened to me on highway I-25. I was driving home at night and going around 68mph I noticed my oil light start flickering, at this point I tryed to slow as much as I could but thwre was heavy traffic. Almost to the nearest off ramp I heard a loud pop and I lost all engine power. I lost control of the vehicle as whatever popped pushed me to the right, I soon regained control and I could hear something dragging and it falling off. I approached the off ramp on the shoulder where my vehicle stayed disabled until a tow truck arrived. A passer by stopped to see if I was alright and said that my car was emmiting flames from the connecting rod I was dragging. My machanic had a look and said "wow, you definitely threw a rod. You're lucky it didn't come in your direction or at another vehicle." I searched for a recall and found out a bit of information regarding this exact engine with both Kia and also Hyundai. Kia sent out an extended warranty for this problem but Hyundai is doing a recall for the same exact engine because it is faulty to begin with. Come to find out that there a lot of Kia customers with the same identical problem in which a class action lawsuit was created. This faulty engine is a real safety hazard to the streets and highway and its a matter of time for all of the cars with these engines to have failure. Please! we need these cars recalled so they can be fixed and not on the road waiting to fail like Kia expects.

- Albuquerque, NM, USA

I have a 2013 Kia Optima gdi engine, I hear a noise in the engine and latter star with smoke like burning oil, the engine bloat

- Laurinburg, NC, USA

I bought my new/used 2013 Kia Optima at the end of June 2016 with no idea that this particular make, model and year had such issues. The car seemed to run nicely. I am a very conservative driver so I rarely took the rpms up past 2.5 when taking off. One day, not even 90 days into owning my Kia, I hoped on the highway. In order to safely merge into traffic I had to accelerate up to 3.5 rpms to reach speed of 65mph. When I did I heard a strange almost clicking noise from the engine and gray smoke pouring from the back end of my car. I pulled over immediately. Just back off the exist next to my gym was a garage. I carefully managed to get my car there where they told me the devastating news (that I've learned now so many Kia Optima owners have faced)...a blown engine. Kia has issued an extended warranty on this problem, but with such limitations that they rarely actually cover the actual repair. I've taken my Kia to the dealer (per Kia customer affairs request) for them to tell me the same thing and now, because Kia won't warranty it due to exemptions on their "extended" warranty, I have to pay the dealer $300. I have a note on this car for 72 months. I've only made 3 payments! no one can help me and I'm not the only Kia owner facing this dilemma. The rod that is defective is causing issues with the oil which is allowing metal flakes to enter the engine. Thus cause seizures in the motor and engine failure. At high rates of speed the engine completely dies creating unsafe driving conditions. Please help!

- Waynesville, OH, USA

I was diving on the I-15 up the baker grade and the engine started to make a rattle sound and then a large bang and then shut off. No power to try to pull to the side of the road I was almost hit by a big rig. Once getting to the side of the road opened the hood and oil and smoke every where it was 3:00 a.M. in the morning. My maintenance record are impeccable and I had just paid the Kia dealership over 700 dollars for a tune up and other services. After finally getting a 525 dollar tow to the dealership I was given a report stating these cars from 2011 to 2015 have an issue with the connecting rod and that engines are seizing. Document attached is something the service dept showed me but I never had seen it before.

- Las Vegas, NV, USA