NHTSA Complaint #10135097 — 1999 KIA SPORTAGE

VEHICLE DOES NOT WANT TO START, HOWEVER, THE RADIO AND POWER WINDOWS ARE STILL WORKING SO IT IS NOT A BATTERY ISSUE. ONCE THE VEHICLE DID START IT WOULD DIE WHEN YOU STARTED UP FROM A STOP AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT AND/OR SOMETIMES WOULD SIMPLY DIE WHEN PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS PEDAL. I TOOK IT TO A SHOP AND THEY INDICATED IT WAS A FUEL PUMP ISSUE. THE FOLLOWING DAY AFTER THE FUEL PUMP WAS REPAIRED THE VEHICLE DID THE SAME THING. THE SHOP THEN INDICATING THERE HAD BEEN A WIRING RECALL SO THEY CHANGED OUT THE WIRING HARNESS. TWO DAYS LATER THE VEHICLE ALMOST DIED ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT, IT WOULD SHAKE VIOLENTLY WHEN IDLING AND THERE WAS VERY LIMITED POWER WHEN I WAS ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE. THE SHOP LOOKED AT IT AGAIN AND THE AIR MANIFEST INDICATOR CAME ON SO THEY CLEANED OUT THE AIR FLOW. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS STILL DOING THE SAME THING. THE SHOP THEN INDICATING THAT THEIR SENSOR INDICATED A DIFFERENT PART OF THE SYSTEM WAS FAILING. THE SHOP CONTACTED A KIA FACILITATED AND WAS TOLD IT SOUNDED LIKE A COMPUTER ISSUE, HOWEVER, EVEN IF THE COMPUTER WAS CHANGED OUT, IT COULD BE A SENSOR ISSUE AND THE VEHICLE WOULD CONTINUE TO DIE WHEN I WAS DRIVING IN TRAFFIC AND/OR PULLING FROM A STOP. A VEHICLE THAT DIES IS A HUGE SAFETY ISSUE, AND IT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE IT CAN BE EASILY FIXED AND/OR KIA DOES NOT WANT TO DO THE WORK. *NM