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If anyone can offer any advice to the following it would be most appreciated.
I bought a 55 plate Kia Sportage brand new. After I had it for 8 months the engine blew and, to cut a long story short, this was caused by a manufacturing fault and Kia eventually provided me with a new engine under warranty.
The engine has now gone AGAIN!! It is currently ina Kia dealer trying to get to the root of the problem. I have been told so far that the damage has been caused by lack of oil although there are no visible signs of an oil leak.There is low or no compression on 3 of the cylinders andI have also been told that there is no oil on the dipstick, however we checked the oil about a month ago and no oil needed to be added. There has been no oil warning light come on and no smoke coming out of the exhaust. They now say they need to strip the engine which means ££££££££££££££££.
Has anyone come across this before??
Any advice would be great as I do not know what to do as proving there was oil in the car is gong to be very diffficult.
Thanks
I bought a 55 plate Kia Sportage brand new. After I had it for 8 months the engine blew and, to cut a long story short, this was caused by a manufacturing fault and Kia eventually provided me with a new engine under warranty.
The engine has now gone AGAIN!! It is currently ina Kia dealer trying to get to the root of the problem. I have been told so far that the damage has been caused by lack of oil although there are no visible signs of an oil leak.There is low or no compression on 3 of the cylinders andI have also been told that there is no oil on the dipstick, however we checked the oil about a month ago and no oil needed to be added. There has been no oil warning light come on and no smoke coming out of the exhaust. They now say they need to strip the engine which means ££££££££££££££££.
Has anyone come across this before??
Any advice would be great as I do not know what to do as proving there was oil in the car is gong to be very diffficult.
Thanks