2008 Kia Sedona Engine cooling Problems

“Bad misfire. This misfire started at 14,000 miles. I took it into the dealer to have it look at they cold not get it to misfire. As time went on at 20,000 the misfire became worse, we left the van for pm service with the first dealer for one week,we wear on vacation. They called and said that the van was ready,that was on a friday,I went to pick up the van from the dealer. When I started it and put it in drive it started to miss. …”

“While driving 70 MPH down freeway Kia suddenly lost power and would not accelerate had to maneuver across 6 lanes of traffic to get to shoulder. Once I turned van off and restarted, I could once again accelerate. The failure occurred 3 more times within a 5 mile stretch. Finally made it to a gas station where we called for roadside assistance, I had 3 babies in carseats in van at time of failure this could have been a huge tragedy if traffic was any worse than it was. Van is at dealer now waiting for service.”

“While driving from the babysitter to my house on 07/19/2011 my car shut down while I was turning in a busy intersection. I was alone with my kids in the middle of the road while cars try to go around me after 3 minutes my car turned back on when I got home my stereo shut down and engine started making nose. I called the dealer spoke to a sales person who wanted me to come in for a trade in, spoke to jeff from the service department and he will call me back to schedule an appointment to come in. …”

“The contact owns a 2008 Kia Sedona. The contact stated while driving approximately 35 MPH, the engine stalled. The vehicle could not be restarted and it had to be towed to the dealer who stated that the engine remote start device had a bad connection . The vehicle was diagnosed by the dealer eight times for the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 18. The current mileage was 19,100.”

“The contact owns a 2008 Kia Sedona. While driving 70 MPH with the cruise control engaged he pressed on the accelerator pedal, and then the pedal fell completely to the floorboard. While attempting to pull to the side of the road , the vehicle stalled. He was able to restart the vehicle. A technician from the dealer repaired the tbs sensor and updated the ecu. The failure mileage was 59000. The current mileage was 59054.”