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1.4 SR-7 5d
Kia 2009 Ceed

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In their own words

Why go to the trouble of making such a good car and then knowingly let millions of them on the road with serious defects to the safety features - air bags and seat-belt pre-tensioners?

How reliable do you find the car?

Brilliant! - At least right up to the moment I had a crash when the air bags failed to deploy and the seat-belt pretensioners didn't react until after my face hit the steering wheel. It is a known problem with this brand and there is a class action against Kia in the USA.

Does the car do everything you expected it to do?

I expected the two major safety features to work and they failed.
  • How they rated it

  • Reliability: 5 out of 5 5.0
  • Meets Expectations: 4 out of 5 4.0
  • Overall Rating: 1 out of 5 1.0
  • Helen Gray doesn't recommend this car

About their car

  • Fuel type Petrol
  • When purchased October 2009
  • Condition when bought New
  • Current Mileage 70,000 miles
  • Average MPG 44 mpg