kim wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:56 am
Hello everyone.
I have recently bought a Kia Soul EV 2016. It is now out of warranty and I'm planning to to most of the maintenence for myself. Workshop will check under the vehicle.
I have downloaded the workshop manual, but i'm missing the inspection list (what to do at the different intervals/kms)
Anyone have these lists available?
I've done the following on my 2016 at approx. 175K kms:
- Fresh brakes front and rear.
- New tie rods
- Tires
- new Gear box (off warranty, ouch, bought the part online and had a local transmission shop install it for literally 10x cheaper than KIA wanted).
Also had the battery "refreshed" a couple years ago by KIA under warranty. I believe they replaced some or all of the cells individually vs. the entire pack, probably because I was 5K km away from being off warranty.
Car drives like new now, range could be better, and A/C has a leak that if I'm going to fix will be done by myself. Hoping new o-rings will do it.
I like the car, but the KIA dealers are absolutely terrible. Quote outrageous prices for work, etc.
For that reason I would never buy a new KIA EV, as nice as they are.