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I am a Honda fan myself...but, I would suppose anything that got you around securely would work. I don't do any lemon law..but, maybe if you look around, you can find a consumer group in your area that can help?? I am glad they have you in a rental...and that your car is still under warranty. Wouldn't want to miss you next month!
I Love my Toyota! I've got a '96 Toyota Camery and I've loved it ever since I got it about 1 1/2 ago. I like Honda, but these days it seems like everybodies got one so I'm losing interest really quick. We also like Chevy's in our house as my husband drives a GMC Sierra (just like Chevy).
As for your car trouble, I'm sorry to hear that. I never did like Kia vehicles but that's just my opinion. Like I said before, I'm into Toyotas and Nissans and Chevy's and Pontiacs! I just went about 1 1/2 without my Toyota though because it was in the body shop for damage repairs from a flying tire (okay so a truck kicked it up into my hood). That stunk. We didn't get a rental until the weekend after it went in (on a Monday) and that was the day before I flew back to Ohio. The rental was a Ford so Brian refused to drive it except to take me up to Dallas to the airport. So, 2 of us went on 1 vehicle for a full week, and with our crazy schedules at that time, it was a disaster. I'm so glad to have it back, new hood and headlight fixture and all! So, enjoy your rental for now!
I got a call from the service department today saying my car will be ready either tomorrow ("in a perfect world" he said) or by Monday at the latest.
I told him I was thinking about trading my car in. He said (off the record) he never liked Kias. He also said that was the reason for the 10 year/100,000 mile warranty.
It is not feasible at this time to trade it in because I'm out of work and because they'd have to tack on $9,000 left to pay on the Kia loan to the new car loan. As long as it's fixed and runs, I'll be happy.
If the Kia has a cracked engine block, that should be reported to the NTSB. Cracked engine blocks in "young" cars are almost always due to bad heat treating/metallurgy and a whole bunch are made at once at a shop.
I have a 2003 Toyota Matrix, that I bought with 11 miles on it. I usually would not buy a brand new model/body type, but this car has a Celica engine and Toyotas are amazing. We had a 1986 minivan that we rolled in 2000 with 175K on it, and my 1991 Corolla had 191K when I sold it.
We also have a rocket: a 1995 Mitsubishi 3000 GT, red, of course!
Smokey,
I never thought about reporting it to the NTSB. I'm going to check and see if they have a website. I never did ask the service mgr. how much the total bill was (just out of curiosity). I'm sure it was WAY expensive.
Sorry to hear about your car Donna, but glad it is all being taken care of under the waranty!