I hope you have better luck with your's than Car and Driver did with a 2022 Sorento
Seems teething issues aren't uncommon
Powertrain-related issues were sore points for the turbocharged Kia SUV during its 40,000-mile stay.
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During this same visit, the service team tinkered with the transmission, draining and replacing its fluid and installing a logic update in order to fix the increasingly perceptible low-speed clutch shudder and clunky shifts. This marked the second time our Sorento received a transmission logic update in less than 8000 miles, the previous of which occurred during the 16,000-mile scheduled maintenance.
Rather than alleviate the gearbox's issues, the latest service action worsened them. The Sorento lurched away from stops—and even stalled on more than one occasion—and roughly swapped cogs with all the head-bobbing grace of a newbie stick-shift driver. After putting less than 30 miles on the odometer, we turned around and brought the Sorento back to the service department.
In time, we learned our Sorento was to receive a replacement transmission under warranty, but it would be a refurbished unit. The Sorento was out of commission for 24 days. (Our original transmission was included in a batch that was recalled, but that happened after ours had already been replaced.)
Although the replacement gearbox did finally end the Sorento's transmission-related woes, it
did not mark the conclusion of our powertrain problems.