What Does the Warranty Include? - 2016 Kia Optima Long-Term Road Test


The 2016 Kia Optima, and indeed all Kias, have an industry-leading warranty. But exactly does that include? We explain.
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The 2016 Kia Optima, and indeed all Kias, have an industry-leading warranty. But exactly does that include? We explain.
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Those free maintenance plans are nice too that some offer.
A 5,000 year warranty sounds impressive, but really, who keeps a car longer than 1,000?
He wound up with a new 2015 Elantra while low-balling him on the trade. New one is OK so far as far as I know.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
GM used to offer a 5/100 powertrain warranty but they no longer offer that and all their vehicles now come with the standard 3/36 . GM was losing a lot of money on warranty claims with widespread problems. The FWD 6 speed tranny and broken timing chain guides on the 3.6 V6 engines for example. If you owned a GM Lambda CUV you could experience both failures which would be close to 10 grand in repairs under warranty. Instead of doing like Hyundai and investing in higher quality parts and better build quality they decided to drop the warranty and let the customer pay for the repairs.
Hyundai is on a calendar year financial schedule, though, so its 2014 claims rate of 1.6% is actually for the calendar year ended Dec. 31, 2014, while Toyota's 2014 claims rate of 1.6% is for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. Toyota's claims rate increased to 2.0% in fiscal 2015. Meanwhile, Hyundai's claims rate for the first quarter of calendar 2015 (not included in the chart) dropped to 1.3%."
U.S. & Asian Auto Warranty Report (warrantyweek.com)
Don't see info on Kia, may not have published info for Warranty Week to dissect. My guess is that it's not a lot different, especially since Hyundai owns 1/3rd of Kia.
As for lowering the power-train coverage for other than the original owner - the reason for that is the CPO program.