So the Forte goes in for it's first failure. Right front wheel bearing decided to quickly accelerate it's own demise last night. The ride home the bearing started getting louder until it started screaming.
So I called the local Kia dealer (whom I used to work for), set up an appointment for next friday. Might as well get the recall for the maybe-it-will-maybe-it-won't work brake light switch.
Piece of crap Korean cars. 43,400 miles and it's going to cost me nothing to get it fixed.
Should have trade for me car 
I know. Should have bought a 2wd chevy pickup. I hear they they are the best in the world. They get 17thousand mpg, rid comfortably and never break.
Brake light switch recall? Did I miss something? Besides, serves you right for buying one of those pieces of crap. 
Speaking of real pieces of crap, my wife's Forte got a flat the other day. Gives me a great excuse to ditch the truly piece of crap tires the car left the factory with. Finally.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I know. Should have bought a 2wd chevy pickup. I hear they they are the best in the world. They get 17thousand mpg, rid comfortably and never break.
Literally LOL'd. Figuratively ROFL.
Those Kia's sound about as bad as a Toyota Truck.
It does feel so nice when a failure is under warranty. It probably sounds odd, but I always feel like I just won something. 
I hope that's an anomaly... 43K is damn early for a wheel bearing to fail - even with STF loads put through it.
I've replaced a few bearings on the Korean cars. They're cheap ($55 new OEM) and takes about an hour to put in with a press. This is a bit early. Most of mine have gone bad in the past around the 100k mark with my...umm... "rough" driving style.
Also remember, I bought this car used. It spent the first 18 months of it's life in Chicago with no maintenance history or any info. So I don't know what happened to it up there. Then it sat on the dealer lot in Ohio for 5 months. Then I got it and have driven the wheels off of it.
Funny enough, I had to rely on that GM truck this morning. It was a nice, quiet, cushy ride with pretty V8 engine sounds when pushing the go pedal.
The BLS recall is for the 10-12's IIRC. The paperwork is in the door of the car (where it has been for 4 or m5 months).
Yeah, I have to agree Bobby, mine is still giving me grief, 2011 Elantra, 163K and last weekend we changed the rear shocks, the first item to show any wear.
It only gets 40mpg.
Damn Korean junk.
Chicago? Potholes. A hard impact with a big one could have caused slight damage to the bearing that worsened over time.
Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
I would agree with the pothole theory. It started making noise around december or January. Right in the middle of our pothole season. I've been planning on getting it in but was waiting until it was bad enough that they would have no choice but to replace it Last night it went from bad to really bad in the span of about 5 miles at 75mph.
Works out nice, since I'm going in for Hernia surgery #2 Monday and my appointment on Friday. I should be moving around pretty decent by then and I can harrass the salespeople while I'm there and chat with a guy I worked with.
Damn, I had to help my son do a front wheel bearing on his Chevy Venture the other day. That piece of crap only lasted 246000 miles. I'm expecting the recall letter any day now. Don't they know that is unsafe. I guess he should have bought a Kia.
I just spent a few minutes trying to convince a not badly paid coworker that he'd be smart to replace wheel bearings on his kid's 2001 Ford Focus in pairs. Apparently one of them on the front of the car (130k miles) is making noise and he's not sure which one. So he'll take his best guess and do one now and then the other in six months.
He asked me for my advice on the car and, well, here we are. Whatever.
Bah. What a piece of E36 M3. Took the MX6 210k miles to trash a wheel bearing.
Toyman01 wrote: Damn, I had to help my son do a front wheel bearing on his Chevy Venture the other day. That piece of crap only lasted 246000 miles. I'm expecting the recall letter any day now. Don't they know that is unsafe. I guess he should have bought a Kia.
The wheel bearing on my piece of junk PT Cruiser went out after JUST 150,000 and it cost me $30. You guys still think Chrysler sucks, so why not apply the same logic to Hyundai/Kia? And I -like- H/K cars.
The difference between the H/K and the ChyCo is this may be the ONLY failure o nthe car. Ba-dum-dum
tuna55 wrote:Toyman01 wrote: Damn, I had to help my son do a front wheel bearing on his Chevy Venture the other day. That piece of crap only lasted 246000 miles. I'm expecting the recall letter any day now. Don't they know that is unsafe. I guess he should have bought a Kia.The wheel bearing on my piece of junk PT Cruiser went out after JUST 150,000 and it cost me $30. You guys still think Chrysler sucks, so why not apply the same logic to Hyundai/Kia? And I -like- H/K cars.
My wheel bearings are fine at 163K, I have replaced 4 spark plugs, one air filter, one cabin filter and 2 rear dampers. I haul people daily in the back seat (many are BIG) I am not sure if you are saying you are doing better than that but I think I know the answer.
Bobzilla wrote:bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
Yeah, I get it. Your car is average of below average. Hey, let's celebrate that!!!
bravenrace wrote:Bobzilla wrote:Yeah, I get it. Your car is average of below average. Hey, let's celebrate that!!!bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
How about we celebrate a car company building a decent product that people want to buy for a price that is actually reasonable? I get it. You don't like that some of us like Hyundai/Kia. We get it. We got it the first 400 times too.
aussiesmg wrote:tuna55 wrote:My wheel bearings are fine at 163K, I have replaced 4 spark plugs, one air filter, one cabin filter and 2 rear dampers. I haul people daily in the back seat (many are BIG) I am not sure if you are saying you are doing better than that but I think I know the answer.Toyman01 wrote: Damn, I had to help my son do a front wheel bearing on his Chevy Venture the other day. That piece of crap only lasted 246000 miles. I'm expecting the recall letter any day now. Don't they know that is unsafe. I guess he should have bought a Kia.The wheel bearing on my piece of junk PT Cruiser went out after JUST 150,000 and it cost me $30. You guys still think Chrysler sucks, so why not apply the same logic to Hyundai/Kia? And I -like- H/K cars.
In 80k of driving (80-160k) I replaces motor mounts, bushings, spark plugs, one wheel bearing, the fog light switch and the timing belt on that PT Cruiser. Not too bad at all.
Bobzilla wrote:bravenrace wrote:How about we celebrate a car company building a decent product that people want to buy for a price that is actually reasonable? I get it. You don't like that some of us like Hyundai/Kia. We get it. We got it the first 400 times too.Bobzilla wrote:Yeah, I get it. Your car is average of below average. Hey, let's celebrate that!!!bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
I couldn't care less that you like H/K. Why would I? But the fact that you so frequently feel a need to boast about how you car does (or in this case, doesn't) what pretty much ever car can do, while bashing good brands like Honda, get's old. Like 400 times old.
My Mazda3 rear shocks just failed at 80K. I hate this stupid car...
bravenrace wrote:Bobzilla wrote:I couldn't care less that you like H/K. Why would I? But the fact that you so frequently feel a need to boast about how you car does (or in this case, doesn't) what pretty much ever car can do, while bashing good brands like Honda, get's old. Like 400 times old.bravenrace wrote:How about we celebrate a car company building a decent product that people want to buy for a price that is actually reasonable? I get it. You don't like that some of us like Hyundai/Kia. We get it. We got it the first 400 times too.Bobzilla wrote:Yeah, I get it. Your car is average of below average. Hey, let's celebrate that!!!bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
I'm sorry you can't handle real world facts. I guess I'll stop helping people with thier problems from now on and tell them it's all in their head.
So, why do you have the hard-on to flounder every berkeleying thread I post? I think that would be something that you should look into. Seems like an obsession here.
Bobzilla wrote:bravenrace wrote:How about we celebrate a car company building a decent product that people want to buy for a price that is actually reasonable? I get it. You don't like that some of us like Hyundai/Kia. We get it. We got it the first 400 times too.Bobzilla wrote:Yeah, I get it. Your car is average of below average. Hey, let's celebrate that!!!bravenrace wrote: Is this the Korean car appreciation thread? Hey, who locked the door! Let me out of here! LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! I can't take any more of these guys bragging that their cars are average! It's like giving a trophy to all the kids just for playing!!! Help! Help!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Well, if everyone else would stop making below average, our average cars wouldn't look so damn good!
Kind of like, yeah, we get it, you love your Korean car. We got it the first 400 times.
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