2008 Kia Sportage Engine Problems

“I was driving on the highway with the cruse control set at 65 and the vechile started to increase speed on it's own I attempted to turn off the cruse control by pressing the brake and turning off the system the car slowed until I removed my foot from the brake, then it began to accelerate again. Once I was able to stop the vehicle the engine continued to try and force it's way back to moving speed on it's own, I was able to get the vehicle in park and the engine speed increased to full throttle on it's own. …”

“I am an owner of a Kia 2008 Sportage with approximately 12,000 miles. About 9 months ago, the engine and brake lights went on. It was evident that car had a transmission problem, you can hear the engine knocking when you would go park to drive or reverse to drive etc... The dealership said I needed a new transmission and all new brakes. They couldn't explain why the transmission was faulty on a car that had at the time less than 11,000 miles. …”

“I was driving the vehicle when it stalled, restarted than stalled again. Had it towed to the dealer who replaced the mass air flow sensor. On 6/25/14 the same happened again (intermit, runs rough then stalls out. This time the dealer found a pin on mass air flow connector was bad and the replaced clip assembly. Today, 06/28/2014 the vehicle stalled out and I had it towed to the dealer who loaned me one of their vehicles because I had to leave my vehicle.”

“This is part 2 of 3... We got a new battery installed at advanced auto. Car ran fine. The next morning , she started the car and then went into the house. My niece was there and said she heard a pop and look outside to see the car on fire. The whole front end including the passenger compartment was burnt to a crisp. I believe what happened was a faulty part in the ABS (causing the light to come on) was shorting or something and that kept draining the battery. …”

“The Kia Sportage 2008, has the modules misfire and the Kia Sportage completely turns itself off while in drive at 45 miles per hour. This happened to me on five different occasions randomly, and the Kia depot in santa ana, said that they could not find the problem on the vehicle, and decided not to keep the vehicle longer to find out what was causing this problem that could be a fatal hazard for anyone that would be driving this vehicle. I was almost hit by other cars while driving this vehicle. …”