So, to update-- My Encore got totaled. Bought a 17 Kia Soul+ from Hertz. Just back from a 2500 shake down trip to Galveston for a cruise. Car burns no oil. Handles and drives (2.0 liter engine) better than Encore and gets a couple of mpg's more. Is as comfortable and quiet (although it has manual seat adjustments). Miss a whole slew of electronic goodies: OLM, tire pressure, compass, instant gas mileage-- to name a few, that were on the Encore. Happy so far.
Now to my question:
In looking at a Kia Soul owners forum, I came across someone who had purchased one from Enterprise. He was concerned because the dipstick showed an over fill. (Mine did too, but I wasn't concerned.) Responders told him that was no big deal but told him to check his filter immediately and if it wasn't GENUINE Kia OEM, immediately get to the Kia dealer and have his Enterprise oil fill with a couple of hundred miles dumped.
I've owned four Kia's (counting a Festiva) and one Hyundai. I've had excellent luck with each. Owned a '13 Rio when the nothing but Kia filter fight was at its height. Used non-OEM filters with absolutely no knocks or rattles and brought the car back to the dealer for a couple of repairs and a recall with no one yelling at me and threatening to deep six my warranty. If I remember correctly, non-OEM filter makers threatened Hyundai-Kia with Magnesson Moss lawsuits if they continued pushing people to using only OEM filters and the whole deal sort of died out about 2014.
Is there some new scare that I missed? I have a local tire dealer that sells Valvoline conventional changes for $15 and MaxLife for $25 with a few additional charges snuck in. I had good luck with my 1.6 Rio using third party oil filters. No strange, undue noises. I would think that any third party filter that caused odd noises in an engine would be a denial of warranty case for any manufacturer, and that HyunKia sort of took a few specific cases and tried to use them to "encourage" additional dealer work.
Anything else I missed during my Buick time? Is the Soul board hysteria for naught?
Now to my question:
In looking at a Kia Soul owners forum, I came across someone who had purchased one from Enterprise. He was concerned because the dipstick showed an over fill. (Mine did too, but I wasn't concerned.) Responders told him that was no big deal but told him to check his filter immediately and if it wasn't GENUINE Kia OEM, immediately get to the Kia dealer and have his Enterprise oil fill with a couple of hundred miles dumped.
I've owned four Kia's (counting a Festiva) and one Hyundai. I've had excellent luck with each. Owned a '13 Rio when the nothing but Kia filter fight was at its height. Used non-OEM filters with absolutely no knocks or rattles and brought the car back to the dealer for a couple of repairs and a recall with no one yelling at me and threatening to deep six my warranty. If I remember correctly, non-OEM filter makers threatened Hyundai-Kia with Magnesson Moss lawsuits if they continued pushing people to using only OEM filters and the whole deal sort of died out about 2014.
Is there some new scare that I missed? I have a local tire dealer that sells Valvoline conventional changes for $15 and MaxLife for $25 with a few additional charges snuck in. I had good luck with my 1.6 Rio using third party oil filters. No strange, undue noises. I would think that any third party filter that caused odd noises in an engine would be a denial of warranty case for any manufacturer, and that HyunKia sort of took a few specific cases and tried to use them to "encourage" additional dealer work.
Anything else I missed during my Buick time? Is the Soul board hysteria for naught?
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