NHTSA Complaint #11155954 — 2012 KIA SPORTAGE

MARCH 2017 (89500 MILES) CHECK ENGINE INDICATOR WAS ON. WAS EXPERIENCING ENGINE VIBRATION AT HIGH RPMS, VIBRATIONS WHEN SHIFTING, AND LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. KIA DEALER REPLACED TIMING CHAIN. JULY 2017 (94156 MILES) ENGINE IDLING LOUD AND ROUGH, ENGINE WHINES OUT, WOULD NOT SHIFT TILL REACHED HIGH RPMS. NO ENGINE LIGHT INDICATOR AT THIS TIME. KIA DEALER SERVICE ADVISOR COULD NOT DUPLICATE ANY CONCERNS. AFTER SCAN PERFORMED ON VEHICLE, NO CODES THROWN, SUGGESTED DOWN STREAM CATALYST BE CHANGED AFTER AFTER FURTHER INSPECTION. WE HAD CATALYST REPLACED AT MUFFLER SHOP. THE SHOP INDICTED THAT THE CATALYST WAS NOT FAULTY. DECEMBER 2018 (113000 MILES) ENGINE VIBRATION TURNED INTO ENGINE KNOCKING, DECREASE IN POWER, CONTINUE TO SHIFT AT HIGH RPMS. NO ENGINE LIGHT INDICATOR. RETURN TO KIA DEALER, INFORMED BY DEALER THAT WE NEED A NEW ENGINE. I FEEL MY ENGINE TROUBLES BEGIN IN MARCH OF 2017, WHILE UNDER WARRANTY, AND WAS NOT DIAGNOSED APPROPRIATELY BY THE DEALERSHIP. LEADING TO AN OUTOFPOCKET EXPENSE FOR AN ENGINE.