yes true starting from Kia Forte onwards.
do you still need another 14 years to review Korean car?
luckily I did my own research based on Forte in US and SG.. and I already enjoy driving it since the last 14 years.

If Korean car boleh pakai, their wimminz no need plastic surgery ady

EO should be replaced every 6 months or 8k km

All the news about IONIC 5 battery costing more than the car itself is no longer rumour. And the condition/ warranty T&C that makes it need replacing with questionable damage is really stupid. I like the look and tech of this car a lot. But this single thing uncertain warranty T&C and high cost of battery makes it a NO RECOMMEND to anyone. I am sure the IONIC 6 and above would suffer the same fate. At the moment cases seems to be isolated to Canada.

which car is this
jalan ipoh is your fren

his mileage only 50k. if he stretch engine oil to 10k km also wont till like this lo.

be worry if you buying japanese related cars or parts, alot of their safety tests were faked.

https://japantoday.com/category/business/to...ed-safety-tests

https://www.drive.com.au/news/daihatsu-halt...eating-scandal/

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/y...20211006-31426/

https://japanantifraud.org/warning-on-risin...fraud-in-japan/

This post has been edited by narf03: Dec 24 2023, 03:00 PM

Starex from Sabah, everything need to order from Semenanjung. Service center need to keep your car just to fix things. First major problem is central locking and automatic sliding door, now it's starting to be faulty again, i need to fork out money because its not under warranty anymore.

korean car mahal leh, mana ada good pricing?

Kesian...

2 years own Kia Carnival KA4 11 seater since 2022. Bought it for the 5 years free service voucher and warranty.

Trade in Estima Acr50 2010 use for 7 years. Recond give big headache once need major parts replacements. It was clocked 189k km mileage when I trade it off for Carnival.

Yes. I’m a kimchi car owner and I agree that Korean car is more reliable and better quality than Japanese

I recently rent Kona, ICE model. Performance not bad.

This post has been edited by mick84: Dec 24 2023, 04:18 PM

ayamz noe a few fren drive killed-in-action kars.. always got electrical problems..

finally they all sold and some of them upgrade to merc and beamer..

aiseh sorry to hear that bro. that bad eh

Clocking my K at 300k km.

Those kopek2 one, stick with your wira please

Korean

More technologically advanced yes.

More reliable than Japanese? Subjective. It's more reliable than Nissan, Mitsubishi and the WRX Subarus.

Certainly can't beat Toyota and Honda in terms of reliability.

Drive Hyundai Getz for more than 6 years and Accent version 2 for more than 7 years without any real problems at all. All the talk about more expensive service is quite untrue as I faced more or less the same cost driving Honda. What is costly is they only have ori parts unlike Japanese and local brands which cause people to think they are costly to maintain.

All the Hyundai KIA made before 2008 are really bad. The Sephia, Accend, early version S Coupe, early version Elantra, early version Sportage & even the rebadged Atoz had bad reliability issues.

All that seemed to change after Forte arrived in 2008. The the 2 door Forte came and the Veloster later on. All these cars can still be spotted on the road from time to time. Even the Matrix & Sportage that came after 2008 has improved a lot.

The new gen Kia just 5 years ago looked really good and by then the brand had at least 10 years reliability record from USA.

The Gets 2002 was launched 2 years later than Toyota Passo 2004. And we get the improved version from Toyota/ Daihatsu Passo/ Boon in 2006 in the form of Myvi.

At that time Hyundai was not really improving anything from their range until after 2008. My relative had a Getz and a Myvi in the same household. The Gets is a money pit. You can argue the Getz was already 5 years old (when she bought it) compared to the 2008 Myvi. But the repairs cost a lot more for same situation repairs like worn bushings. somehow it was quite costly to repair the engine oil leaking issues on the Getz. Even the shock original absorbers cost more than myvi.