The contact owns a 2000 Kia Sportage. Since purchasing the vehicle, the contact has paid for numerous repairs. Before driving the vehicle off the lot, she noticed a large puddle of oil underneath the vehicle. The dealer repaired the failure. The following week, while driving 55 mph, the vehicle began to shake severely. The dealer rotated the tires, but the shaking persisted. Thirdly, a tire blew out and had to be changed. In addition, the vehicle began leaking transmission fluid and a new transmission line was installed. Lastly, the windshield wiper motor stopped working and the entire driver's side glass caved in on the contact, but did not break. There were no injuries. Currently, the glass will not roll up or down. The failure mileage was 86,000. Updated 1/5/09 the gas tank was falling apart. A shield was needed to rectify the problem. The drivers window was inoperative. The radiator was leaking. The vehicle was out of alignment. The vehicle would not start. The consumer discovered the cable had melted. Updated 01/09/09

- Pinellas Park, FL, USA

Incidents: 2000 Kia Sportage automatic transmission slippage - I (and at least two other Kia Sportage owners I have talked with) have experienced slippage in the automatic transmission. We were all told that no problem could be found but we have all continued to experience the problem from time to time.

- Richmond, VA, USA

First got car seemed to drive good, but in the winter the 4-wheel drive didn't work. Kia fixed it, and this happened again, Kia fixed it again. This seemed to happen when in high speeds and then slowing, the wheels would shake. At the first attempt to fix it, Kia dealer said they changed the kit that puts it into 4-wheel drive. On the second attempt to fix it, they didn't know what they did, but it had to do with 4-wheel drive. At third attempt Kia said the hoses were clogged. Took hoses off and cleaned them and put them back on. Also, said there was a new kit into the cars, but he did not put it into consumer's car. He assured consumer that the car would be fine. About three months later the 4-wheel drive and transmission iwere not working right. The last time this happened the front wheeles locked up and slid.

- Harrisberg, PA, USA

While driving my Sportage, I accidentally hit the gear control on the floor. To my surprise, it moved forward from the drive position to the neutral position. I found an isolated street and tested it again and it happened again. The gear handle does not properly lock into each position as it should. The safety button on the gear lever does not provide any sort of protection. I did not want to damage my car by testing to see if I could shift from drive into reverse using this newly-found problem. I'll leave that one to the automotive professionals. Please investigate this problem and determine if this is an isolated case or a vehicle design flaw. Thanks for your help!

- Largo, MD, USA

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- Stuart, FL, USA

There was a noise coming from transmission. Vehicle had trouble slipping into the next gear. Contacted dealer.

- Hunington Beach, CA, USA

When starting vehicle, it runs rough and almost stalls. When driving vehicle, it hesitates and bucks, has total loss of power in 1st and 2nd gear. This problem does not happen all the time, but does happen frequently. Has been to the dealership and they cannot locate problem. Car has lost power several times while entering traffic causing a potential accident.

- Cape Coral, FL, USA

Car has lost power in 1st and 2nd gears, engine light comes on, car smokes, replaced two 02 sensors, tapping noise under hood when start engine, car would not start, once started had gas smell, and blew smoke out exhaust

- Gig Harbor, WA, USA

On four occasions while traveling at highway speed of 60 mph or more, transmission jumped out of gear into neutral. Vehicle been in/out of dealer shop on four occasions, and nothing could be found.

- Duncanville, TX, USA