2006 Kia Amanti

BOUGHT 2006 KIA AMANTI WITH 6500+ MILES DRIVEN BY DEAKLER MANAGER EXPERIENCED SUDDEN ACCELERATION UPON INITIAL START UP TWO OR THREE TIMES WHEN CAR SEEMED TO CONTINUE OK AFTER A COUPLE OF SUDDEN SUDDEN JUMPS (THIS WHEN I FIRST TAPPED ACCELERATOR THEN STOPPEDC DOING THIS. THIS HAS SINCE HAPPENED MANY TIMES NOT ALL THE TIME.TO DATE IT HAS HAPPENED 9 0R 10 TIMES. ON TWO OCCASIONS CAR WOULD NOT SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL BUT SURGED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT DISPITE MY EFFORTS TO STOP CAR. I SHIFTED TO NEUTRAL AND STOPPED CAR THE CAR WORKED OK WHEN I SHIFTED INTO DRIVE THEREAFTER BUT DID IT A SECOND TIME A FEW WEEKS LATER. I DID THE SAME THING (SHIFTED TO NEUTRAL) AND IT FUNCTIONED OK. THE DEALER TESTED CAR (ON COMPUTER AND INSISTED IT WAS OK HOWEVER WHEN IT CONTINUED I CALLED KIA THEY REFEREED ME TO ANOTHER DEALER (BALL KIA) NAND AGAIN TESTED IT BUT COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG. HOWEVER IT IS STILL DOING THIS AND I HAVE BEEN BACK SEVERAL TIMES. BALL MECHANIC SAID TO KEEP DRIVING UNTIL IT DOES IT SO OFTEN THAT THEY CAN RETEST IT. I AM CONCERNED THAT IF IT HAPPENS WHEN MY WIFE IS DRIVING . SHE MAY NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HAVE AN ACCIDENT.*CN

TL* - THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE FROM A STOP THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. THIS WAS AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM. IF THE VEHICLE DID ACCELERATE, IT WOULD DO SO VERY SLOWLY AND THE RPMS WERE RUNNING AS THOUGH THE CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING AT AN ACCELERATED SPEED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN ANYTIME OF THE DAY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT SOMETIMES WHEN TRYING TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE ON THE HIGHWAY AT A SPEED OF 60 MPH THE VEHICLE DIDN'T ACCELERATE INTO OVERDRIVE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO DEALERSHIP ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,THE MOST RECENT BEING 11/27/06. THE CONTACT DID HAVE THE SERVICE MECHANIC PERFORM A TEST DRIVE AND HE DID NOTICE THE PROBLEM WITH THE ACCELERATION. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE DEALERSHIP HAS CONTACTED HER AND TOLD HER TO COME IN AND PICK UP HER VEHICLE, SHE WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD TO REPROGRAM THE COMPUTER SYSTEM IN THE VEHICLE. *AK UPDATED 1/22/2007 - THE DEALER RETURNED THE VEHICLE TO THE CONSUMERT WITH ANY REPAIRS BEING MADE. *NM