2008 Kia Sportage Electrical system Problems

“I parked my car at 6am went in to work at about noon my coworkers were telling me my car was smoking went outside and smoke was coming from under the hood so we popped the hood and my electrical box was smoking pretty bad a guy used a extinguisher on it to find it was still smoking so he disconnected.the battery all the wires in box are burned I only had a little over 100000 miles on it so naturally its expired.”

“I received a safety recall notice for the stop lamp switch. I have been unable to schedule an appointment with my local Kia dealership to have the recall work done. When I first moved to the area, I was unsuccessful in scheduling routine maintenance with the same dealership. What do you recommend?”

“I was in the car, parked in a wendys parking lot, engine off, radio on. There was a loud pop followed by smoke, a gentleman in a truck 3 spaces away heard it and saw it. We got out to look at it and the smoke was increasing, I opened the hood and you could see flames about 2 inches high around the box mounted inside the engine compartment, on the passenger side up near the headlights and over the wheel well. …”

“I recently purchased a 2008 Kia Sportage at an auction. It has sustained an engine compartment fire that appears to have been caused by the wiring harness and / or ABS pump. This is the lx model with 2.7 v6 automatic 4wd. I just saw another Sportage 2010 model that had a fire in the same ABS pump area at an auction. Thought you might be interested as there seems to be a problem ..”

“Went to Kia of cheyenne on scheduled appointment date for recall notice and they didn't have the part. I was told to check back in a week. When I called to check on repair date because I have to travel from nebraska I was informed that the part is on back order and to check back on the 31st of january. My vehicle is not safe to drive due to electrical fire hazard and no ABS brakes due to the seal of hecu being bad. I complained about this issue in 2013, they refused to fix because the car was out of warranty.”