HAMBURG, NEW YORK - I am a 21 year old female. I feel the salesman and everybody else involved in selling me this car were deceptive by not telling me about this 2007 Kia spectra quirk. Does following this procedure mean that when one is ready to drive off in the car, the clock needs resetting as does the radio? Yes, they do! This is a real pain in the you know what. But if you drive the car with the memory fuse pulled up then the Tire Pressure Monitor check light comes on.įollowing this procedure, I was able to leave the car parked for four days without having the battery go dead. But the rest of the electrical components in the car work (ignition, headlights, tail lights, etc.). What is the procedure described in the Kia manual, you ask? "Turn off the headlights and tail lights and pull up the MEMORY FUSE in the fuse box that sits in front of the driver's left knee" - this procedure disconnects the clock, the audio (radio), the door chimes, and the interior lights. Overnight parking is no problem but leave it parked for another day and the battery will not start the car. The battery will not start the car on the third day if it has been sitting parked for two days.
2006 KIA SPECTRA BATTERY MANUAL
Buried in the Kia manual there is a procedure to go through when parking the car for a "prolonged period" - the fact that this "prolonged period" is only two days was not revealed to me at the time of sale. That's when I went looking through the manual that I had to ask for because it wasn't in the glove compartment at the time of sale. But let it stand for two nights and the car won't start on the third day. If the car is only parked overnight, there is no problem starting it the next morning.
But got me worried that maybe the battery would fail while I was in town. A 10 amp battery charger got it going so no real problem. When I went to start it the battery didn't have enough voltage to turn over the starter. Shortly after I purchased the car it was parked for three days. I bought this used car in December 2009 and neither the salesman nor the sales manager mentioned this fact to me at the time of sale. This car's battery voltage will drop below the voltage that will start the car if the car is parked for more than overnight and the memory fuse is not pulled up. The black manager there sucks and is very rude and the dealership manager is a jackass. Do not buy anything from Kia Town Center. We bought the Hyundai." The manager said "so you paid more." My husband said "DO I look stupid?" We got a top of the line model for less than Kia's bottom line! The dealership manager came up to us and said "so you decided to sign those papers?" My husband said "No. Saturday morning as soon as Hyundai opened we went and bought the Entourage.Īfter words with my husband driving the Kia and me following in the Hyundai we returned the Kia to the dealership. On the way home I told my husband I did not want it.
So after we had been in Kia for about 2 hours, while the idiot of a manager laughed at us, we leave unhappy with this van. He told us to take the van home for the night and sleep on it. And that is we could get that deal to go do it. He said there was no way Hyundai was selling us a van for that little. We gave them the deal from Hyundai and the manager laughed in our faces. Kia was going to put us in the basic model Kia van, no leather no nothing for almost 1000.00 a month. Of course we were going to "trade in" the Spectra 5 so that added 14k in rollover debt.Īfter getting this price we thought MAYBE Kia would work with us more knowing the trouble we had had with the car and that they were not able to fix it. Leather, power seats, power locks, powers door and trunk, tri-zone air. We were given a price on a 07 Hyundai Entourage Limited edition. We were not too keen on the idea of another Kia so we went to Hyundai Cartersville. We decide it's not worth being stranded at school, and at the grocery store, and on vacation and we need to trade it in. In the time it took to fill my 12 gallon tank the battery went dead?!?!?!?!?!? Had been driving for about an hour and stop to get gas. The service dept said there was nothing wrong with the car that I was leaving the lights on. I took the car to Town Center every time it would do this. This happened again repeatedly for the next year. I called the Kia roadside service number and waited an hour for them to come get me. When I went to start the car, the battery was dead. I was sitting at my son's school waiting on him to come out. After about 6 months of owning the car, the battery went dead for no reason. I purchased a brand new Kia Spectra 5 in 2005. KENNESAW, GEORGIA - I live in Kennesaw, Georgia.
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