• Mike D@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Since it is coming from Kia I have to assume it won’t work correctly. Probably give you cancer.

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      13 hours ago

      Hasn’t Kia turned their reputation around in the past decade or so? I feel like them and Hyundai used to be the butt of every shitty car joke, but they’re not that bad these days from what I understand.

      • Mike D@piefed.social
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        Kia/Hyundai make some good cars and some shit cars. If you get one of the shit cars you are on your own.

        The Kia Boys mess was caused by Kia trying to safe a few bucks by not putting immobilizers in some cars to save a few bucks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge

        Kia/Hyundai also sold lots of cars the had their engines die due to manufacturing defects. They recalled some cars with the engine and not others. There was at least one class action settlement.

        My wife bought 2016 Kia Soul new from the dealer. It was the highest trim level so it had an immobilizer but it had one of their troubled engines. When the engine threw a rod (that is bad) the engine was still under warranty at 60k miles only because she bought the car new. I was at the dealer and overheard another person with the Soul and a bad engine. He was out of luck because the car had over 50k miles and he was not the original owner. The Kia drivetrain warranty was good up to 100k if you were the original owner but only 50k if you were not.

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      1 day ago

      I would think that a Kia-branded version of gasoline fumes would fail to sufficiently cause cancer when huffed, or be disappointingly unlikely to cause death by spontaneous combustion.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I had a fuel can tip over in the boot of my car once, and the vehicle stunk of petrol for about two weeks afterwards. I had to drive with the windows down for a few minutes every time I drove the car.

    If you really want your car to smell like petrol, a teaspoon of the stuff in the air vents like some type of essential oil will do the trick.

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      2 days ago

      My mom bought a BMW from her cousin that had an odd fuel line. Nothing was technically wrong but you could smell the fuel when the engine was on. Eventually she gave it back.

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    2 days ago

    I wonder if those are more popular with men.

    Maybe they could also give copies of the song Benzin by Ramstein, to listen while you sniff your nostalgic gasoline scented air “freshener”.

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      Just one data point, but my ex wife would take a deep breath every time she was in a parking garage because she really liked that smell.