r/KiaSoulClub

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.
Heres 2 videos with the current problem I’m having. Posted below

Are there any other options when replacing a 2015 Kia soul base model engine? Any one try any other manufacturer engines like a suburu for example. After 180,000 miles it’s getting close to done and is just burning up catalytic converters. The recall from 2019, because I did that makes it ineligible for the other recall to replace the engine from what I have been told.

So I always just go based on my mileage. Which has me coming in around 8-10 months. I have a 2022 kia soul. And i believe the it says to come in every 5k miles every 6 months. I got my car December 2021 and I’m at about 36,500 miles for reference.

I’m looking at a 2015 soul with 101,000 miles And the 2.1L engine. It was well taken care of by an elderly couple, in visible mint condition but will be doing a test drive and will check out all the standard stuff. They had it posted for 5k but I talked them down to 4.5. I’m just wanting something my wife can drive 20 miles to work, so on average 40 miles a day. I’ve never owned a Kia before to give you insight into my knowledge of them.

We bought a 2020 Kia Soul brand new. My wife had a 2010 that was still running and it was a great car, but wanted something newer and the financing was great at 0%.

Two weeks ago while driving home from visiting family the engine started surging, it felt like a rocking motion and the RPMs flickered up and down. As she went to exit the highway to the nearest exit she had her foot down on the pedal but it was barely responding although not revving high. We pulled over and let it rest for about 10 minutes - I took the driver seat and it had no issues. 20km later it started again and as I got off the in the next exit it started revving high.

We managed to get it to a mechanic but since it was Sunday night it was closed. We managed to make it back home thanks to her parents and left the car there (about 250km away). They ran a diagnosis saying it was a transmission issue and should go to the dealer. I called one in the city near to the town the car was currently in and explained the issue. He said it sounded like engine rather than transmission and even looked up the VIN to tell us there were two recalls that may be applicable.

The next day we had it towed to the nearest dealer (not the one I had called as the tow was nearly $200 more for that location) for them to wait three days to finally check it and tell us it needed a new transmission. With the option of a used transmission for $5300, or new one at $11,000.

We decided to cut our losses and get a Toyota. This past Saturday we went to Kia to sign over the ownership and pick up the $2500 cheque they had for the car. I asked about the receipt from the first garage who did the diagnosis as it wasn’t on the passenger seat where they said it would be. The service manager said he had it and went to retrieve it. He said he wanted to keep the receipt to which I said no. Before handing it to me he said he would make a copy to which I objected; I paid for the diagnosis, it’s my receipt and they had allegedly already done their own diagnosis with their mechanics although he had no paperwork for that.

My suspicion is they didn’t even look at our car and relied on the other garage’s code reader which may have been as simple as a damaged solenoid, but by then we’d already bought a new car. It still bugs me that they probably didn’t bother doing anything and that we may have been covered by the TSB. It’s a moot point now, but still.

Our Soul was 5 years and 11 months with 96K km on the odometer.

Screw Kia and Smith Falls Kia in particular.