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Originally Posted by pw4x3r
My car was towed to the nearest shop, and my insurance company, after my $1000 deductible, financed the remainder of the new motor installation.
At some time after the succesful motor replacement, the check engine light came on. I took my vehicle back to the shop that installed the motor and had them diagnose a P0171 engine code. After failing in the diagnosis, the shop asked if my vehicle was under warranty, and suggested I had my vehicle taken to the dealership for diagnosis.
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It sounds like an engine from another vehicle (possibly one out of warranty) was installed in your car by a non-authorised service shop - this alone would void warranty.
The correct course of action would be for the insurance company to pay a KIA dealer to repair the engine or install another engine and in this case maintain the KIA warranty.
The warranty cover for the engine thats in your car now is with the shop that supplied and installed it, and if they were appointed by your insurance company, then get them onto the shop to force them to honour the warranty on the engine they supplied and installed.
It sounds like the Idle Speed Control (ISC) valve is sticky, which is quite simple to clean with carb cleaner, but if I were you, I'd take it to a shop that HAS the skills to do this, because the shop that installed the replacement engine does not seem to have sufficient skills.
BTW. Your duplicate of this post was deleted.