Recent content by schnort

I recently handed off my leased 2016 Kia Soul EV to my wife (I upgraded to a Model 3) and of course in the first week it started giving her trouble (she's like poison to anything vaguely technological) After about a minute of turning the car on, a popup shows on the screen "Your battery is low...

Its also mind-numbingly slow to update the current charge status. And, for whatever reason, doesn't do it automatically when you open the app.

I had a BMW i3 prior to the Kia Soul EV. It did not make this or similar noises.

Actually, I didn't. I drove a similar car for 5 minutes, and didn't notice the issue at the time. I was focused on other things and not looking for an annoying tinnitus whine because I didn't expect anybody to actually allow that to be manufactured. I picked up my particular car to drive home...

KIA USA basically said "that's how the car is, and they're all like that. you need to address this through your local lemon laws". Hurrah. They've lost a customer for life.

They actually replaced the motor....and nothing changed. I drove a '17 model and the problem exists there to some degree. Unfortunately, I think it's a design flaw. I'm initiating a discussion with the regional sales manager to unwind the deal, because I really prefer not to tolerate it and...

So the service manager said it was the 'charge manager' or something like that (he wasn't really well versed, and I wasn't taking notes). They ordered parts and it's back ordered....for up to 6 months. They called KIA USA and supposedly got it promised by the end of the month, so I'm in a...

Yeah, I'm going to do my best to get details on what is getting replaced.

Well, I've been told that they're ordering the part. And also told to bring back my loaner so that KIA US (not the dealership) can pay for a rental, which probably means that this won't be in tomorrow or the next day or any time soon sort of thing.

FWIW, I just leased a 2016 EV+ for $266/mo, 39 months, all included(no money down except first month's payment) from that dealership. HOWEVER, my car has an annoying high pitched whine that they're looking at. Another on the lot didn't seem to have the exact same issue, but something similar.

I assume completely inflated. I noticed it the day I took possession of the car. Anyways, it's at the dealer now. They're looking at it and supposedly talking to KIA engineering.

It's hard to say, but the thing I think the video was talking about was much lower pitch, and I didn't notice it until I was going 45mph or even faster. Go to this site: http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ and listen to 6300Hz and 11025Hz. Those are the two tones that are sticking out...

I'm not sure it's that exactly, but I'm pretty sure there's two things making noise. I downloaded a spectrum analyzer (spectrumview) on my phone, and I see two tones: - one at ~11000Hz - one at ~6300Hz They're way down, but definitely above the noise floor, fixed frequency, and varying...

Huh, I'm more interested in if anybody has had it fixed rather than just living with it. My hearing is relatively important to my line of work and I really don't want to notch out that tone through repetitive exposure.

I did test drive another car and didn't notice it then, but it was a short ride and I might have just missed it.