A modernized functional vehicle with poor ownership experience
I find the owners experience to be better than other brands like Kia but still below that of my older 1999 Honda CRV. The manual actually does give oil specs, filter locations, and a helpfully detailed list of maintenance items but I wish that it went the extra mile and gave a complete list of information for these jobs like torque specs and fastener sizes. There's no reason easy maintenance items like brakes, oil and filters shouldn't be expected for an owner to choose to do themselves with just a few little pointers in the manual. More annoyingly the check oil reminder won't allow me to turn it off/reset it even after navigating through the menus.
As for features within the car itself, they all work well enough but leave themselves open for easy criticism. Starting with the Electronic parking brake which is almost worth the hassle of increased work during brake pad replacement but while the car will turn it on automatically on a hill (which is nice), I haven't found a way to have it turn on whenever the car enters park or has the drivers side door open which I would prefer, if I have to turn it on manually each time I'd rather have a more traditional brake handle.
some sensors also don't seem to work in heavy rain with them turning themselves off, the lane keep assist is actively trying to kill me so that stays off now and finally the strange check engine light that turned on one day and then disappeared three days later.
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