How have Hyundai and Kia’s EV’s held up? I’m about to hit 13 years in my 2011 Kia Optima and, while it still runs fine, it’s a bit of a gas guzzler now. Adding to that, I literally just recieved notice of the 5th or 6th recall on the car, the amount of major recalls it’s had has completely killed any resale value it could’ve had. I really wanted to move on from Hyundai / Kia, but I want an EV to ease my long commute and the other brands are really expensive.
I’m not expecting tons for it, but it’s barely worth a down payment for a new car. Go look at what equivalent preowned cars are being sold for right now.
Yeah, this is the biggest issue with my ‘11 Optima. I had the engine replaced for free, but they just replace it with a new engine that has the same problem, so eventually I guess I’ll have to have the engine replaced again.
These kinds of issues make me a little skeptical of the long-term reliability of their EVs.
How have Hyundai and Kia’s EV’s held up? I’m about to hit 13 years in my 2011 Kia Optima and, while it still runs fine, it’s a bit of a gas guzzler now. Adding to that, I literally just recieved notice of the 5th or 6th recall on the car, the amount of major recalls it’s had has completely killed any resale value it could’ve had. I really wanted to move on from Hyundai / Kia, but I want an EV to ease my long commute and the other brands are really expensive.
The EV6 has had its fair share of ICCU issues:
https://www.kiaevforums.com/threads/ev6-iccu-recall-discussion.8731/
https://www.kiaevforums.com/threads/12v-battery-died-towed-back-to-dealer.9969/
https://www.theautopian.com/why-everyones-favorite-electric-car-keeps-stranding-its-owners/
If you Google " ICCU failure" you will see that new issues keep popping up.
Resale value on a 13 year old car, lol
I never had an issue with my '11 Soul before I traded it for an EV6.
Well in Toyota world, resale value is a thing on 13 year old vehicles.
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/0a6f5e38-b4aa-4ed3-b8e8-de9ca541c6cd?aff=share_other
Our other car is a 10 year old Toyota. Private party value is maybe 60-70% of the original price lol
I’m not expecting tons for it, but it’s barely worth a down payment for a new car. Go look at what equivalent preowned cars are being sold for right now.
Wait a couple more years and it’ll be worth a small fortune for its parts.
Antique with all those gauges!
Is that a real CD player?
/s
Curious as well as their 2.0/2.4 liter four cylinder engines had issues for a decade that they never fixed.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/hyundai-and-kia-s-decade-of-very-troublesome-engines-continues-44497118
Yeah, this is the biggest issue with my ‘11 Optima. I had the engine replaced for free, but they just replace it with a new engine that has the same problem, so eventually I guess I’ll have to have the engine replaced again.
These kinds of issues make me a little skeptical of the long-term reliability of their EVs.