Key Takeaways Southwest Ohio’s seasonal temperature swings affect range differently across the EV6, EV9, and plug-in Niro, making it worth understanding how each vehicle responds. Charging habits have a bigger impact on daily range than most owners coming from a gas vehicle expect. Climate control accounts for a meaningful portion of energy use, especially during…
Summer in Beavercreek means more traffic on Pentagon Boulevard and North Fairfield Road, more stop and go commuting, and pavement temperatures that can climb well past what your brakes deal with in cooler months. What a lot of drivers don’t realize is that a brake inspection that’s often free or low cost can extend the…
Family vehicles used to mean one conversation at the service counter: oil changes, tire rotations, and the occasional brake job. A battery health check costs a fraction of what a prematurely degraded high-voltage pack costs to replace, and that gap matters more than ever now that two of Kia’s most popular family vehicles run on…
Beavercreek’s Public Service Division begins treating roads with salt brine solution up to 72 hours before a winter storm arrives. Greene County operates its own fleet of treatment trucks running a salt and liquid deicer combination across county roads throughout the season. By the time a Beavercreek Kia owner has made a few weeks of…
A cracked windshield on the Kia EV9 feels like a simple fix until you understand what’s mounted to it. The forward-facing camera that powers most of the EV9’s DriveWise driver assistance features sits directly behind the glass, and when that windshield comes out, the camera’s calibration comes with it. Skipping recalibration after a replacement isn’t…
Last month, a Kia Sorento came into our service bay after the owner noticed a hollow thudding sound every time they crossed a speed bump in The Greene’s parking area. They had been brushing it off for weeks, assuming it was just the nature of the lot. When we got underneath, we found two failed…
Last fall, a 2023 Kia EV6 came into our service department on Heller Drive at 22,000 miles with front tire wear that would have been unremarkable on a 60,000-mile gasoline vehicle. The owner had replaced the original equipment tires at 18,000 miles with a set of standard all-season tires from a general tire shop, selected…
A Kia Telluride owner came into our service bay last month after his infotainment system had been freezing and rebooting on his daily commute on I-675 between Beavercreek and Kettering for nearly six weeks. He had taken it to an independent electronics shop near Fairborn that performed a generic Android system reset, assuming the underlying…
A Kia EV9 owner came into our service bay last month after growing frustrated that his charging sessions at the DC fast charger near the I-675 and Wilmington Pike interchange were regularly taking 45 minutes or more to reach 80 percent, well beyond the 25-minute window he had been promised during the purchase process. He…
A Kia Telluride owner came in last March after noticing a loud hum from the front axle on I-675 that hadn’t been there in the fall. He had leaned heavily on Terrain Mode through a tough Greene County winter, assuming the system was managing his tires through the ice and snow on Heller Drive and…
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