That's an awful quality of build. Hope they can fix it and it won't happen again.
Front bumper won't clip in
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I have the same problem on both sides. And a number of Carnival owners complains on that: https://www.drive2.ru/l/595109295218026882. They suspects that it may be caused by dealer's installation of protective grille for radiator.
Thanks for the reply. Hopefully they will fix it. My appt is still a couple weeks away. Have you reached out to them?
Nope, even not contacted them. My case looks less bad. As I was told, for fix that they need to change plastic brackets on both sides, as in case of reinstallation of the bumper it should be changed each time. Looks like this disease is mostly concerned cars assembled in Russia, as I heard a lot of complaints about that. And no one complains about cars imported from Korea.Thanks for the reply. Hopefully they will fix it. My appt is still a couple weeks away. Have you reached out to them?
I am having the same bumper clip problem, do the warranty cover that fix? Mine is imported from Korea
So far I'm continuing to get the run around from the dealership..... Can you post a picture of yours? The more evidence we have that this is an issue with the vehicle and not something we did, the better.
The first question I was asked us if I got in an accident. I first brought it to their attention about a week after i purchased and the vehicle is clearly spotless with no scrapes nor dings but they want to blame me.
The first question I was asked us if I got in an accident. I first brought it to their attention about a week after i purchased and the vehicle is clearly spotless with no scrapes nor dings but they want to blame me.
Wow. It's exactly the same thing as mine. Even in the passenger's side.
I have my Kia appointment next Wednesday, will let you know what happen.
Golly gee....it happened to our SXP. I was washing my wife's car this weekend when I noticed it on ours exact same issue. I pushed it in and it clipped in like magnets. Don't know if this fixes the problem or will it happen again.
I took my carnival to dealer, they checked no damage, and agree to fix the broken clips free of charge, so waiting for their order for the bumper clips to arrive, will takes couple weeks.
There is a scratch on the right side under the vehicle so they are unable to warranty it. Disappointed, but the scratch it's definitely there I think it may have contributed to an underlying design issue but isn't the root cause based on the other pictures I'm seeing. It's about an inch long and quarter inch wide scratch on the underside of the plastic piece that's below the bumper cover. I've never had this happen in our other 2 vehicles over 200k miles.
Oh, no. Please let us know how much they quoted / charge.
$250 but I'm still not even sure what's wrong. "Need to take it apart and put it back together".
I took it to a different body shop workout an appointment today and they slightly bent the clip down and pushed it in and it's staying so far. It took 30 seconds without an appointment and they charged me nothing. They said if it pops out they can glue it in.
I took it to a different body shop workout an appointment today and they slightly bent the clip down and pushed it in and it's staying so far. It took 30 seconds without an appointment and they charged me nothing. They said if it pops out they can glue it in.
Anyone else having this issue? I'm assuming the front bumper came loose after a bump (like speed bump) and will no longer stay in. Picture sent to dealer and waiting for them to get back to me.
My 2021 front bumper cracked in the cold while resting the side of my leg on it unplugging my block heater. Very cheap bumpers. Fighting them now on it. Only has 20,000 km they did something to it. I took a snake camera to it and looked behind the bumper
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I noticed my bumper on the front passenger side is doing the same thing! We just bought ours a few weeks ago, used (2022 SX).
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