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Kia Magentis CRDI reliabilty

  • 10-11-2013 1:50pm
    #1
    dinky earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭


    Any body got any real world experience of the new shape 06 and on Kia Magentis diesels ?
    Would they stand up well to 30k miles plus a year if properly maintained? Theres a massive difference in price from an avensis d4d or a superb. Is this just badge snobbery or are they useless?


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  • #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    It's basically a Hyundai Sonata, how cheap is cheap?


  • #3
    dinky earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭dinky earnshaw


    bazz26 wrote: »
    It's basically a Hyundai Sonata, how cheap is cheap?
    Well ive seen a 2006 model with full leather and 70k miles on the clock for €4950. My mine concern is the general reliabilty any experience of them? What goes wrong with them are they expsensive to fix etc? Would it be feasable to get another 100k miles without too many problems if the car is well maintained?


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Hard to say really, don't know a whole lot more about them and they are not all that common. Probably worth having a test drive of it anyway but 70k miles is low for a nearly 8 year old diesel car so make sure to do proper background checks on it.


  • #5
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Any of them I've seen have mostly been taxis


  • #6
    dinky earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭dinky earnshaw


    yeah Ive seen a few as taxis. is there any mechanics or taxi drivers on here with experience of them ?


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  • #7
    Greyfoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Greyfoot


    We have a Rio 1.5CRDI here in the fleet, basically its bulletproof, I change oil and filter every 10k and she is being trashed by tourists and italian up-to-no-goods 24/7.
    On a side note, there is a couple of newish 320d in the fleet also, all of them with serious engine defects...


  • #8
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I think they had the 140hp engine, early sonatas were 5 speed with 116hp. Usual stuff with them, possible injector issues, clutches not particularly robust.


  • #9
    dinky earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭dinky earnshaw


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I think they had the 140hp engine, early sonatas were 5 speed with 116hp. Usual stuff with them, possible injector issues, clutches not particularly robust.
    Are they the expensive dmf clutches ?


  • #10
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Yep.
    I don't really like them as a car though, the seats are too low and unsupportive.
    They're also not as good looking as the sonata.

    They're kinda like a modern day Camry (except for the reliability like)


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