A week or 2 ago I noticed a rough idle and dropped my car off at the mechanic. I received a call advising I needed to take the vehicle to Kia as my car was down to 4 quarts of oil and there is no leak. The vehicle is having an oil consumption issue, and is widely reported as a critical issue across this line of vehicles and other Kia models and years. I change my oil every 5k miles as recommended by my mechanic, even though the book states 7500. I was still over 2k miles from my next scheduled change, which notes that I’m burning about 1 quart of oil every 5k miles. Upon contacting Kia I was informed I’ll need to drop it off for diagnostic testing that I must pay for and would cost about $300. If they do not find any another issues, they will begin oil consumption testing requiring that I pay for an oil change every 1k miles, and must come back before I get over 1k or the testing must start over. I’m dropping the vehicle off on Wednesday 4/8, they will not be providing a rental car unless a warrantable issue is discovered.

Would love to hear from anyone who’s done this process and had success with replacement coverage. please feel free to send me a message, I’ll keep an eye on my inbox on here for your messages.

This is such a pain. My closest dealer is over an hour from me. So to go back every 1k miles for 5k miles will be a huge pain. I’m very annoyed given that this appears to be a known issue that Kia does not want to take responsibility for, and why now?! I’m so close to 100k, but fortunately I am not over. It seems like some have it worse than me and didn’t discover until they were over 100k, so I do feel fortunate in that respect. Why does it seem like this only starts very close to when or just after the warranty runs out for most? I feel like they build this way on purpose to avoid coverage!?

I will update my progress along the way. I’m also emailing Kia corporate immediately following the start of the oil consumption testing, to request a case number and corp oversight of the process.