What could possibly be going on?
Hope I’m allowed to put this is here. I’m trying to just figure out what’s going on.. beyond frustrated at this point and needs some answers. Please I hope you can help.
Bought a 2019 Soul back in very beginning of 2020.
It was an awesome car for about a year. Then I started having issues.
Tires: kept wearing down with minimal use. Sounds crazy but I would go out one day, and boom tires flat. No nail, no puncture, didn’t run over or hit anything. Random flatness
Engine: Sputtering everywhere, you name it it’s probably done it there. Wasn’t happening much back in 2021,2022 but starting about mid 2023 it started being more noticeable. Hard brake here
Car randomly just shuts off at a red light with the car still in drive and flashing almost every light on the dashboard.
Oil consumption: My soul (haha) eats oil like it needs it for a 1000 person party (weird analogy sorry) it gussels oil like no tomorrow. Every maybe 100 miles to about 400 miles I’m almost on E with oil. Burns oil? Maybe, leaking oil? I don’t even see oil on the ground.
Gas pedal: somehow when my car has “phantom braking” is when my car skips a beat like I step on the gas ( not to go really fast normal speeding up) like to go onto the interstate or pulling out safely but quickly into traffic my car stutters or struggles to pull the pressure to go. It skips, so when I apply gas it won’t go. So I release and reapply pressure, the car then feels like it overcompensates for not going the first time and revs really hard then essentially “break checks” itself causing a jerk back. Sometimes when this happens. I’ll slightly add pressure and nothing works. Revs the RPMS up to about 5 or 6, but my speed doesn’t change. I could be getting on interstate and needing to get up to 70mph but the car is going at 6-7 RPMS but the car is only at about 47 mph WITH constant an progressing pressure in the pedal.
Entertainment system: My entertainment system has gone out, blew a fuse, static tv’ed itself. And has now blown my back speakers. I don’t listen to insanely loud music I enjoy slightly louder than usual music but not the ones you’d hear shaking your car at a red light. There will be times I’m at a red light and the system starts flashing, volume goes out, or completely just resets itself.
A/c: Very current issue. The ac will now not work at setting 1 or 2, 3 is a slightly louder version to setting 4. The only ones that “really” works. I understand it’s summer, but an ac should keep the car “cool” even on like 2 or 3.
There’s a lot my issues to the car right now. But right now.
The car is paid off
No accidents (no reported ones, 2 unconfirmed accidents. Only cosmetic damage and a broken gas gauge was the only thing that happened)
I’ve taken it to the shop so many times
Extended warranty is in place till 103,000 miles
Currently standing at close to 77,000 miles
Current on oil checks and everything. Thank you an sorry for the long post.