My mum drives a KIA Rio 1.4 (05). The car have thus far never fails to amaze me on its’ quality and high resistance toward noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH). It’s a great car, if you ask me. I would get that car if I wasn’t going after my “believes” in Honda. Don’t get me wrong, my car is still a good car but the build quality is worst than I thought. But that’s another topic overall.
Recently, the rio involved in a small accident and sustain minor injuries. After repairs, it’s still looks good but there is some sound whenever the car drives through a pothole or uneven road. It sounded like something is wrong with the absorber or its’ mounting but a complete layman like me toward cars, which only knows how to drive and some simple thing of cars, I am not quite sure what could be the cause. And the most wicked part is, our usual foreman where we brought the rio for service could not figure out where went wrong. So I am thinking if it would be good if there is Kia rio club forum where communities on the net could shares their views and thoughts on any aspects pertaining to Kia rio.
Anyone knows or heard of active Kia Rio club forum? Or probably I could set up one..
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I just had my car serviced at Top Secret Performance Automotive Service. I’ll probably talks more on the service center later (If I still remember). It has since clocked 40k km. I haven’t have time to post about it. Tho it is irrelevant to this blog, but I thought I should share some experiences I been through with it so if future owners that is thinking of getting the same car model, then this could be useful.
Overall, it’s a great compact car that suits me well enough to travel from one distance to another. One minus point is the plastic feel in the interior. I think I could safely say it has more than 75% of the dashboard parts are plastic. Probably it’s just me but I think with the price of the car, it should be fitted with more better quality makes instead of all plastic.
Oh well, that wont matter much if you dont really touch it since it is designed to look like it’s made of rubber. With that minus point, i think it could be superceded with the engine performance. So I have no regret thus far with the car.
Wait, I think I’ve talked too much on the car instead of what I intended to post. Back to the topic, I went for normal routine service for 40k interval and I can’t recall what exactly got changed or the details of the service package but after the service, driving inside the car with air condition switched on have a heavy scent of petrol smell. And getting a little concern over the smell, I quickly turn to Google sinsei for hint. Well, lucky thought, it seems that the fuel smell is norm. It happens to many city owners who just went for service at the same interval which is 40k. I guess one of the service causes the emittance of strong petrol smell.
Well, I’m relieved. phew.
That’s another experience of mine.
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