Kia Motors Rio Consumer Reviews - Page 2

She also broke her back, chance fracture at L3, compression fracture L4, process fractures at L3, L4, and L5. She also broke both legs, requiring pins in the left ankle and a rod in her right leg. She was hospitalized for 4 weeks. Her recovery will take a year. This was her junior year in high school. We feel very blessed that she survived, but had the airbag deployed she may have been as fortunate as the driver. The roof of the car had to be cut off to remove her from the car. The Kia had front and side airbags, only the driver front bag deployed.

I bought a 2005 Kia Rio brand new. Had a few problems with the wheel bearings @ around 58000 miles on my way back to the Gulf Coast from Cincinnati which Kia did fix at no charge. The dealer in Meridian MS that fixed the bearings offered to do a routine inspection before I drove 3 hours to pick up the car at no charge to see if there was any recommended services I needed. Not wanting to break down again I happily agreed (plus it was free).

The dealership called me and said the car needed no additional service at that time. Then at roughly 60,136 miles the timing belt broke. I had it towed to Kia in Gulfport Mississippi, confident that my impressive warranty would cover this issue. To my dismay, they refused to replace the damaged motor under the warranty and instead wanted me to pay $3500. I fought, called Kia and begged. I was given no reason why they would not honor the warranty and I still had 5 payments to finish on a car that was junk!!!

These people at Kia are **. the timing belt broke on our 2004 Kia Rio at 74,000 miles. Call dealer and was told that we hadn't change the belt at 60,000 miles as stated in the owner's manual as a scheduled maintenance item. It cost about $500-600 for this scheduled maintenance. These Kia dealers are knowing selling a defective product. Well our timing belt broke. Engine now junk. Car now junk. I will never buy a Kia ever again. They (Kia dealers) are a bunch of **.

I had my Rio repaired at an authorized dealer. They put in the wrong screw on the head gasket and it had to be repaired out of state at another authorized Kia dealership. The old owner of the dealership is not helping with the $1600 repair job - he says "it's the owner's problem." The new owner says "it's the old owner's problem". These are brothers. When I called Kia to complain, they said they do not stand behind their authorized dealers.

On 12-01-2014 my partner hit a parked car. Head on my 2011 Kia Rio is a complete write off but the airbags DID NOT deploy. Also in March 2012 I rear ended a car hard enough for my car to be un-drivable in the same vehicle and the airbags DID NOT deploy then either. As it has now been two accidents in the same vehicle and both times the airbags have NOT deployed I am concerned as this is a serious safety issue on Kia's behalf.

CERRITOS, CALIFORNIA -- KIA is the worst after all I have read on your pages. I am so sick. I thought I bought a car with a good warranty when I purchased it brand new. The car stopped for no reason. Engine is frozen, does not turn. Dealer declared Kia has denied my claim. 6 weeks later and I'm out of a job/savings/soon to be homeless/child took off/no transportation. How can I drive my child to very important sport events/competitions? My life came to a hold when this darn car stopped... What shall I do? help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a 2006 KIA Rio I purchased new. Passenger airbags are off when any one sits in the seat. Had KIA factory mechanic look at it and he stated it was in perfect working order. They could not fix it. Car has 100,000 miles on it and still has the problem. Trans has a leak and KIA would not fix it under warranty. DO NOT BUY A KIA. THEY ARE JUNK AND THEIR WARRANTY IS JUNK. PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE THINKING ABOUT BUYING ANY OF THERE CARS!

In some cases when buying a used car, you are not fortunate enough to get a manual. We also have a Kia Sportage 2002 which does have a manual and it states "replace timing belt every 96,000 miles." If timing belt failure causes so much damage that a new engine is required, I would think a special note should be included stating what will happen if not done.

With only 65,000 miles on my car, the timing belt broke and ruined my engine. Kia says this is not unusual and I understand it happens all the time. Why would they keep building cars like this and creating such a hardship on people. Don't they care? I would like any info on a class action suit against Kia re: this problem.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- I had a 2005 4-door Kia Rio which turned out to be more of a headache than anything else. After taking my car in for regular oil changes, filter changes, etc., I was NEVER INFORMED OF HAVING TO CHANGE THE TIMING CHAIN AT 60,000 miles resulting in the car STALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY INTERSECTION with my months old grandson in the back seat in the middle of summer. I WILL NEVER BUY A KIA AGAIN!!! It's not surprising as to why it sells so CHEAP!!!!