I bought a new Kia Sorento 3.5 petrol (automatic) in 2005 and kept it for 60, 000 km. The automatic transmission often did not want to select. The agents could not solve this problem and I decided to trade it in on a Kia Sorento 2.5 diesel with a manual transmission. Since new this car often did not want to select 4 wheel drive low range . I took the car to the Silverton branch in Pretoria in October 2008 to fix this problem and they changed some electronic valves, but the vehicle was still not fixed. I took the car back in November 2008 and the car is still there because they are not able to fix the problem. (It is now 9 January 2009)
I think this is very bad advertising for Kia and I am now forced to take them on to refund me for the market value of this vehicle.