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No. Just No.
K, 08/01/2019
2017 Kia Niro EX 4dr SUV (1.6L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 6AM)
18 of 21 people found this review helpful
This is an excellent car for people looking to put less than 500 miles on it per month. Honestly, if you plan on putting more than 10k miles on it in the first year it may not be the car for you. It's comfortable for short commutes and has plenty of cargo space. It’s awful for long drives as there is no lumbar support in the seats. Gas mileage is excellent. If you're looking for a vehicle to drive an average of 100+ miles per day or to use for long distance commutes, this isn't the one for you. The car was in the shop several times within the first 6 months of owning it. I purchased it brand new with maybe 5 miles on it. Within a month there was an issue with it idling and driving poorly. Took several tries and lost hours of work taking it to the dealer before they informed me they’d never seen the issue before and were able to open a ticket, give me a rental and fix it. Cut to a few weeks later and the car starts shaking violently and stopped excellerating while climbing a hill at 75mph. AC and everything in the car is unusual enough while I’m in the middle of nowhere, two hours from the nearest shop, waiting for a tow truck in the heat. Another rental car for however long. The car had a few more other random issues that “they’d never seen” before over the next year and then the engine blows up. Engines gets replaced after having a rental for a month. Have it back in the shop exactly three times within two weeks after the new engine (twice for the same problem related to the engines, once because the bottom of the damn car tore off when I hit a puddle of water). I get to drive it for a few weeks when....the air conditioner stops working. Take it in, they can’t find the problem, charge me $140 because the “warranty expired” (60k which I had just hit when the engine blew) and tell me to come back. Drive with no air conditioning in the piece of crap car for over a week, go back....there’s a seal leak in the air compressor they can’t fix. I’ve had the car exactly 23 months and their fix for this? “It will cost over $2k to replace the compressor or you can just trade the car for a new one!” No thank you. I got it appraised and was offered $10k for a car that I paid well over $20k for and have had less than two years. Every dealer has told me that this is NOT a sought after car, hybrids aren’t popular, Kia doesn’t resell well. I’m going to be upside down in debt because of a POS car and you do not want that to happen to you. Run. Run far away. I always loved my Kia Soul and I was going to trade in for a new one but not now. Not ever.
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Better than I thought
Jesse, 09/26/2017
updated 10/10/2018
2017 Kia Niro LX 4dr SUV (1.6L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 6AM)
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
Depending on the model you get what you paid for. We have the LX model. We didn't need all the bells and whistles. We have 2 children and the car has plenty of room in the back seats, and cargo space. We've held off on hybrid's for a long long time because of the price. Kia has made an excellent hybrid for its first. It's fun to drive, especially when me and the wife try to see who can get the best milage out of each tank. My wife pull off 52 mpg on one tank!! And the sport feature in the transmission makes getting on the freeway or cloning hills so easy. I love this car and bought it under $29,000!! Update: it's been over a year, 18,000 plus miles and two trips from southern to northern California and we still love it. We take it in for its schedule maintenance and we've had no issues. I couldn't be happier for my first new car buy. I've always bought used cars but I think from now on I will look to KIA for any future purchase
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Great Gas Mileage in a comfortable car
Michael Glass, 04/09/2018
2017 Kia Niro EX 4dr SUV (1.6L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 6AM)
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
I looked at every new mid and small SUV on the market this past December and I selected the Niro from KIA. While there may be cars out there that look better and some that are even more comfortable but our primary reason for buying this new mode of transportation was economy. NO ONE beats the Niro hybrid on gas mileage, most SUVs use twice as much gas. One of the interesting things about this car is that it gets better gas mileage in town than on the road. NOT what I expected.
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So far so good
Carin Heidelbach, 04/18/2017
2017 Kia Niro EX 4dr SUV (1.6L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 6AM)
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
I really like this car. I've only had it a month but have barely had to put gas in it. Very comfortable ride. Acceleration from a stop is slow but other than that truly happy with it.
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Tires not my cup of tea
Boat, 04/09/2019
2017 Kia Niro Touring 4dr SUV (1.6L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 6AM)
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
I bought one of the Niros to Kansas. I love it—- except—- I noticed noises coming from the wheel areas. I could never pin down which wheel. I started complaining about the noise at about 12,000 miles. At 17,000 they put it up on the rack and said everything was fine. The noise was to be expected because of the two engines and road noise. I had had an Optima before this and had never had this issue. It has been inspected 3 times. They have told me that I’m not rotating the tires often enough. BS!! Every time I take it in to have the oil changed, I tell them to do what is needed. Now, at 34,500 miles they tell me my tires are cupping and that has been causing the noise. If you google cupping tires almost everything it says is related to suspension problems and could be serious. I’m told now that my suspension is fine. The dealership is going to replace my tires, that should have lasted another 15,000 miles. I’m told today that KIA put the wrong type of tires on this car and have had complaints about it. You’d think they would have mentioned this in the last 18 months. I’ve googled this and can’t find anything. I think I’m getting hoodwinked. I may be trading this very soon.
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