Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

Re:Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience by bityard on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:02PM (#44653516)

I recently got rid of a 2016 Kia Sonata with a severe (and getting worse) oil burning issue. It was well under 100k miles. We really liked the car otherwise overall. Great price, seemed to be made well, easy to work on. The extended warranty on these only applies if you actually blow up engine, which I wasn't willing to do deliberately because I have scruples.

(And according to forum threads, at the time this happened to this us, stealerships were putting people on a 1-2 year waitlist for remanufactured engines, or straight-up totalling their vehicles and giving them "market value" for the car, and these models had awful resale value exactly due to these problems.)

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Re:Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience by auxym on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:53PM (#44653940)

Do you mean Hyundai Sonata, or another Kia model?

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Re:Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience by bityard on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @11:59AM (#44660685)

Sorry, I meant Kia Sorento. I guess my brain is already actively trying to forget it.

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Re:Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience by SecretDreams on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @09:17PM (#44654811)

Lol, I think I did the exact same thing with a Tucson. Similar mileage, too. Did you have the 2l or 2.4l engine? I had oil burning and reduced power. Dealer actually said they'd replace the engine... After it actually died. No shot I'm going to drive my car w/ my fam just waiting for it to die. I did absolutely love the vehicle otherwise, so that was a real bummer.

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Re:Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience by Ancapistani on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @01:42AM (#44656026)

We had a 2015 Sorento with a similar issue. Kia said the oil burn rate was within specs and refused to act. It died at 105k, and they refused to do anything about it, even with documentation of the oil burn rate going back to 75k miles. We replaced the engine on our own dime, and it took me three weeks to find a single engine that was compatible.

That said, a few months ago my daughter was t-boned in it by a driving going 60+ MPH. The impact was directly on the driver’s door. She not only survived, but did so with only superficial facial cuts and some longer-term, back pain.

I can’t be too hard on a car that saved my daughter’s life.

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