Originally Posted by
7milesout
One of my best buds just off'd his Kia for a Toyota minivan. The Sorento was a 4 cylinder and it was burning oil like nobody's bidness. He had it at the dealer many times, they never truly fixed the oil burning. He had a couple other large powertrain issues covered by the dealer. And then the shift interlock failed and seems like for whatever reason the dealer wouldn't cover that, and it was going to cost him $400 or so. It required the replacement of some ECU (not the powertrain ECU, something smaller). So, his wife would just jam a crotchet tool down in the shifter interlock release and drive with the tool jammed in there.
After dealing with that shift interlock and what it was going to cost, he let a dealer have it and got a Toyota. A Sienna hybrid and says he's getting mid 30's mpg. Was getting low 20's with the Sorento 4 cylinder.
Wife has the v6 version. I know nothing about them. A co-worker has an older sante fe v6 that has low compression in one cylinder causing random missfire. But it's been like that for over a year now. They're wanting to ditch it, it's got around 100,000 miles I believe? Oh well, I'll hopefully have a sketchy as frig scissor lift at home next year so I can fix it when it breaks.
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