r/KiaSorento

I’m planning to lease a Kia Sorento hybrid X line SX prestige which is the top of the line variant. I want it to be leased at $0 down even the taxes and fee rolled out the monthly payment. So real $0 down with 15k miles/year. The msrp of the car is $46-47k at dealers website. Usually its around 50k on Kia’s website. They are offering me $748 per month after just like 45 mins to 1 hour of negotiating. The residual is $32,700

The other dealer said verbally not on the papers that we might come down to high 600 or mid 600 but that was for 12k miles per year. That negotiation also went for 45 mins - 1 hour

What should the lease look like with the terms I mentioned above? What could be the bestest or lease somebody could have scored?

Hello, I am thinking of purchasing a Sorento Plug-in Hybrid. I read that the electric motor is underpowered (90HP?) for a vehicle its size. As a result it doesn’t drive in electric mode as much as some people would like. I was curious what owners first hand experiences have been with it? I live in a the Birmingham, Alabama area and it is hilly here. We used to own a Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid, and I could go 4 to 6 weeks on a tank of gas and I miss that. I installed a level 2 charger in my garage so I could charge it everyday. I do mostly city driving with an occasional road trip and trying to decide between a plug-in Sorento or a hybrid Sorento or Santa Fe. Thanks for any input.

Been comparing the Sorento and Santa Fe and they’re closer than I expected.

Sorento feels a bit more traditional and practical, while the Santa Fe leans more into bold design and a slightly different interior layout.

For anyone who’s looked at both, what made you go one way over the other?

My dad’s 2022 Sorento, bought in ‘21 new, now around 80k miles, keeps randomly stalling while driving.

He’s taken the car to the dealership at least 2 times that I know, latest one was returned 2 weeks ago and they haven’t been able to allocate the issue after having the car for several days.

Vehicle is still under warranty but coming close to that 100k miles, and I feel the dealership is just trying to play the long game…

What could we possibly do? My dad really likes his car and it’s almost paid off, buying a new one and start from scratch doesn’t appeal to him one bit, but he just keeps having the same issue and it’s definitely a safety hazard to have your car stall while driving down the road.

We live in Houston TX, dealer is Joe Myers Kia.

Dropped off my car 2025 sorento Sx gas to dealership Wednesday. The digital cluster froze on Monday. Stuck at 50mph and frozen. Car drove fine. Digital cluster was useless and couldn’t tell if turn signals were working cause of no indicators. Got home turned car off and digital cluster was still on 45 minutes later frozen. Called dealership they said to disconnect negative terminal for 30 minutes. And hook back up and should work. Did that and then the screen was just blank. Would only show if I was in drive or reverse or park. And that was it. No cluster at all. No speedometer no gas tank. Nothing. Was at dealership for 3 hours before they caved and gave me a loaner and said that they tried to reinstall software in car and it failed every time. So they had to report it to Kia corporate and they are going to have to have a Kia engineer come time a look at it. Haven’t even had the car a year. And this is the second time I’ve had weird electrical problems with the car. I love the car others wise. But I have no confidence in it.

I’m with State Farm and I have a 2013 Hyundai Tucson and a 2021 Subaru Ascent on my policy already. Just bought a 2018 Sorrento LX yesterday and went to add it to my policy and the six month premium on the Sorrento is more than the other two cars combined! Does anyone have any experience with something like this or have any idea what could cause insurance on an eight-year-old vehicle to be this astronomical?

When driving a Sorento plugin, what mode gets the best MPG? EV when around town, but what for other travel?

We bought this 2025 Kia Sorento PHEV last month and while I was scrolling through the menus I noticed that the engine temperature image seems like it is indicating a high engine temp. Am I reading this correctly? I assume that the red notch under the H is the measure of the current tempature. There are no warning lights on and the car is driving totally fine. Our car has 1200 miles on it and we have not yet done our first oil change. Is this normal?

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