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Kia sportage 1.6 gt line - Spurious error lights - Peter Dowdall

I've got a 2018 sportage, nice car, bit iffy on the electric power steering but apart from that drives well. My question....... every year it starts reminding me of the forthcoming service interval. Eventually I book it in (normally overruns by a month), so at around about the extra month I get random error lights all across the board, everything starts tomorrow flash and beeb, goes on for about 5 minutes then clears up. The sceptic in me suspects things is a cunning ploy on kia's part of to scare me into getting the service done, nothing is ever found wrong with the car when I kia finally get their hands on it. Anyone else experienced this, personally if it was is doing it as part of its programming setup I'd think it could be classed as dangerous.

Kia sportage 1.6 gt line - Spurious error lights - Big John

The clue might be with the "iffy electric power steering". My money is on the battery being on its way out - if it is electric power steering is usually the first issue showing up due to the high current draw - closely followed by other functions failing intermittently (any low voltage codes stored?)

Edited by Big John on 20/06/2021 at 23:04

Kia sportage 1.6 gt line - Spurious error lights - Simpo
If the steering feels as if you’ve got to overcome some resistance around the straight ahead it’s most probably to do with the wrong kind of grease being used on the rack. Took it to Kia who mentioned a TSB about it and sorted it same day. It’s been fine since.

Can’t help with the spurious electrical issues I’m afraid.