Hi, Bought my Spectra brand new in May 04 from a dealer in Ft. Worth, Texas. Since the day I bought it I have had numerous problems. This car has been in the shop 8 times in the last 13 months for repairs. But my one major concern is there is a knock or pinging sound coming from the engine sounds like metal tinking against each other. The service dept. manager road with me and heard the sound. He said it was a spark knock caused by pre ignition. By the way the sound is getting louder in this Texas heat. They replaced the spark plugs with NGK saying that it came with wrong plugs from the factory and the wrong gap was installed. The noise continued so they said to try a higher octane fuel. I did this very expensively for 3000 miles and the knock went away. The knock returned went I went back to regular octane. Took it back to the dealer they heard the knock again and said they contacted Kia and I was told that I would just have to live with it. I am extremely concerned about the engine and since I can get them to do nothing on this issue I was hoping for some help here. I have 18,000 miles on the car also wind noise from the windows is a huge problem and the alternator was replaced at 15.000 miles. Fog lights have gone out and been replaced. Sorry for ranting just concerned about the future of the engine. Thanks
IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM CAN YOU PLEASE POST ALSO. SINCE THE DEALER HAS SAID THEY HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM KIA WIDE IN THE 2004.5 SPECTRA
IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM CAN YOU PLEASE POST ALSO. SINCE THE DEALER HAS SAID THEY HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM KIA WIDE IN THE 2004.5 SPECTRA