2001 Kia Rio RS review from North America

I live in Saskatchewan, Canada and when the temp. got to -30 the transmission would not shift into overdrive, and the power windows would not open. That was the least of my concerns. The electrical system is crap. It is really under powered. I have had the driver side door lock stop working so I had to use the passenger door. It never really idled nicely. Not that great on gas due to being under powered, and it had to work at everything.

I will never and will do what ever I can to not have anyone else buy one of these pieces of crap. All the way down to the service this company is a farce. On top of the above mentioned problems the motor broke down on me and they said that the timing belt broke and the motor was screwed. They continued to tell me that it would be around 4 to 5 thousand dollars to fix. I took it home and pulled it apart, and the timing belt was not broken, and it just needed a valve job. I had already purchased a salvage motor to replace it by this time. The same with any service I have had... they did nothing, but lie and make weak excuses.

The warranty that I tried to use was crap.

The check engine light always came on and that is a $60 bill right there to read the faults.

I wrote them about all these problems and all I got was a form letter that did not address one problem that I mentioned.

I will stop at that and you can draw you own opinion now.