Maximizing the Performance of Your Kia with Regular Maintenance

Regular Kia maintenance ensures your Kia will always operate at peak performance and deliver the perfect driving experience you expect. As your Kia dealer, we want to tell you about some examples of maintenance we can perform to keep your car in great condition.

Examples of Kia Maintenance Available at Your Kia Dealer

Headlight Bulb Replacement

Headlight bulbs have a very varied lifespan, ranging from 500 to 30,000 hours, depending on the type of bulbs in your Kia. These might not sound like long lives, but bulbs are usually only used for relatively brief periods at night. A bulb’s lifespan can also be reduced by issues in the electrical system, as bulbs are very sensitive to fluctuations in the electrical current.

Replacing a bulb is very quick, and we recommend replacing both bulbs even if only one has failed. The reason for this is bulbs are installed in pairs, and if one bulb fails, the other will fail soon afterward. Installing two new bulbs saves you time and money as you won’t need to return in a few days to get the second bulb replaced.

Tire Balancing

Your tires are perfectly balanced when your Kia is new, but over time, they can become unbalanced. You’ll hear strange noises from an unbalanced tire, car handling won’t be as precise as it should be, and you’ll use additional fuel due to the increased resistance from the tire. In addition, an unbalanced tire suffers additional wear damage as it hits the ground harder than it should.

We can easily correct your tire balance. We attach each tire one at a time to our tire balancing machine. This machine spins the tire at high speed and identifies the weight distribution in the tire. Our technicians use this information to add precisely determined weights to the tire to ensure it’s correctly balanced around its center.

Radiator Fan Repair

Liquid coolant flows through your engine at high speed, and it absorbs heat generated by combustion and the movement of countless engine components. The heat is then transported inside the coolant to the radiator, where it enters rows of parallel metal tubes. Air flows in through the radiator grille and blows over the tubes to remove the heat.

If your engine is idling, airflow through the radiator is restricted. When this happens, the radiator fan situated at the rear of the radiator switches on and blows across the tubes to blow the heat out through the grille. If the radiator fan fails, your engine temperature will rapidly rise whenever your engine idles. We’ll examine the fan and repair or replace it to fix this problem.

Contact our service department today at Coughlin Kia of Newark in Newark, OH.

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