Hello,
Kind of a had a bad experience recently with my 2022 Kia Sorento PHEV. My gf mostly drives it but we both have had a couple instances of where when moving the shifter from drive to reverse the shifter moves to R but the gears do not follow they stay in neutral. If you aren't paying attention you'll jerk the entire car once you get it into gear playing with the gear knob This escalated recently to where we had to have the car towed because it would not come out of D at all using the selector from the car turned off. Funny enough we had parked at the BMV (Indiana version of DMV) and went to get the license plate ordered. We did this right near closing thankfully. The only weird thing I had done was send a few lock commands to the car from where I was sitting inside so the lady could tell which car was mine to read the VIN. We left 20 minutes later and when I got to the car I unlocked it and got in. The car would not start and was flashing D in the drive and saying to shift to neutral. Nothing I did could get it out of drive. Car would not start or shut off. I figured maybe disconnecting/reconnecting battery would fix it but I didn't have the tools. We let them tow it after hours to the closest Kia which didn't work on it until morning. It couldn't be turned off so it drained the battery and sure enough it started working after they jumped it.
They are still looking at it but I was wondering if anyone else had this issue or seen it? I saw some other car models with this kind of shifter have had something go wrong. They don't see any computer codes saying it is wrong so far.
Kind of a had a bad experience recently with my 2022 Kia Sorento PHEV. My gf mostly drives it but we both have had a couple instances of where when moving the shifter from drive to reverse the shifter moves to R but the gears do not follow they stay in neutral. If you aren't paying attention you'll jerk the entire car once you get it into gear playing with the gear knob This escalated recently to where we had to have the car towed because it would not come out of D at all using the selector from the car turned off. Funny enough we had parked at the BMV (Indiana version of DMV) and went to get the license plate ordered. We did this right near closing thankfully. The only weird thing I had done was send a few lock commands to the car from where I was sitting inside so the lady could tell which car was mine to read the VIN. We left 20 minutes later and when I got to the car I unlocked it and got in. The car would not start and was flashing D in the drive and saying to shift to neutral. Nothing I did could get it out of drive. Car would not start or shut off. I figured maybe disconnecting/reconnecting battery would fix it but I didn't have the tools. We let them tow it after hours to the closest Kia which didn't work on it until morning. It couldn't be turned off so it drained the battery and sure enough it started working after they jumped it.
They are still looking at it but I was wondering if anyone else had this issue or seen it? I saw some other car models with this kind of shifter have had something go wrong. They don't see any computer codes saying it is wrong so far.
