The car hesitated or choked when accelerating to change lanes and a cloudy fume emitted from the rear. This has happened 5 times in the span of 2 weeks, both on freeway and surface streets. Several times came very close to getting rear ended.

- Downey, CA, USA

As I'm going down the road it just fades out, no warning or chugging, I have to move to the side of the road and turn the car off and restart it, then it's ok(?) so to speak..it's only happened twice and I was on a back road home both times. But what if I'm on the freeway and trying to pass a semi and it does this, I could be killed or injured...what could possible be going on? thank you for your time on this matter...(xxxxx) parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

- North Jackson, OH, USA

I was driving 60mph on highway 225 when the oil light flashed on then off and then I had no control of the car. The whole car shut down and I was able to coast to an exit and into a business (donut time) in pasadena, tx. The brakes were not working. I thought I was going to crash into the business. I stopped short of being in an actual parking spot. I was fortunate there were no other cars around this time. A lady who worked there came out and asked what was going because she could see I did not stop or have control. I had the car towed to Kia and turned in my service records. They claim it was not maintenanced and had sludge and to talk to my mechanic. I could have died and they are blaming me for their defect. I am still under warranty with 50441 miles. After looking it up, I saw others being denied as well with the same issue. My car has the theta II engine and there is a class action in progress. I felt that I should share my situation and help in anyway because it is unsafe.

- Pasadena, TX, USA

My husband and I were driving our 2016 Kia Sportage that we had bought on 05/23/2018 (just made the first payment the day before) to myrtle beach SC, we heard a pop, I lost function to the gas, pulled to the side of the road and popped the hood to find fire flames coming from the engine. We grabbed what we could out of our car and ran as far away as we could. It wasn't even 2 minutes later and the whole car was in flames and everything was destroyed. All that was left was the frame of the car. We just got married in October of 2017, this was our first married purchase and was suppose to be our family car and we watched it burn to the ground in front of us. We also lost a lot of valuables in the fire.

- Dahlonega, GA, USA