Thank you for updating us Bart, once again and good luck! Like I wrote in one post already, I am driving the KIA Ceed CD, but with the same 1.0 engine and the very loud sound on cold starts. It gets quiet after only a few seconds and the engine behaves normaly after that. The dealer convinced me tha...

Please inofrm us about the results Bart! Good Luck!

No news from me at all. And no news in other forums/ Facebook groups I am active in, that are discussing this issue. I've read in a Kona Facebook group post from owners that have reached near 60.000 miles having the same start sound, but with no other problems by now at all. But that doesen't mean t...

Hi Paulo, Can you make a video from the start of the enginea? Just to compare the sounds. I saw an e-mail from my KIA service today. They wrote me to bring the car back one more time so they can check everything once again and make sure that everything is ok. I think I will leave the car tomorrow an...

Hi there, I am actually not owning a Kona, but another vehicle from rhe brand Hyundai/KIA, the new Ceed. Since the KIA-community does not write much about the 1.0 t-gdi engine (probably not a popular engine for this car) I have decided to join the Kona Forums and share my toughts about the engine an...

Well, in the end it might be that everything is just totaly fine with the engine and that this is just the standard sound we have to live with. I have heard worse from Volkswagens three cilynder TSI engines, the ones without the timing chain issue. The one I saw had ower 150k km and sounded like a m...

Hi! First of all, I hope that I'm not breaking any forum rules, it's my first post here. Like the most of you, I am owning a 1.0 t-gdi engine, but not in the Kona. I'm driving the KIA Ceed CD 2019, just like Paulo. And hi there Paulo, I think we have already met in the KIA forum on the same topic. :...