I left work 2 days ago and noticed my car was making a knocking noise. I immediately pulled over. I hadn’t even made it out of the parking lot yet. Oil level was fine. Just recently had it changed. Had my car taken to a repair shop to find out the noise was coming from inside the engine. Kia has a recall for the very same thing that my car is doing. The recall is for the same year and same model but because my car is a hybrid, they will not replace the engine. A meeting engine is at least $4000 not including labor!! My car has less than 130,000 miles. Kia will not stand behind their vehicles even when they know they are bad.

NOTE: this incident has been reported under electrical as well due to car being a hybrid which involves both engine & electrical/battery malfunctions

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED - The dealership had supposedly FIXED my "problem" two weeks earlier....

I again was driving on the DC metro beltway - traffic was extremely heavy but moving at a good clip with variable speed (45-60 depending on lane & stretch of road). I was keeping with traffic at around 50 to 55 mph BUT this time it was NIGHT TIME as the sun had already set AND I note that I have a BLACK car. Once again my car just started to slow down AGAIN even though the dashboard screen suggested both the engine & the battery were still powering the wheels albeit not coordinated (switching back & forth) and the battery level was rapidly dropping so I determined I had better get off the beltway as it was dark and hard to see and traffic in the evening is RUDE & CRAZY here - so signaled to move across four lanes of traffic again to get to an off ramp but the car just stopped so I placed in park and put on my hazard lights flashing, Same warning came up when car was slowing saying battery had discharged and I needed to park (but I already was). What was different this time though is that the engine never kicked in while park to 'recharge' the battery.

What was also very different was it was NIGHT and my car is black and the highway not lit. Cars were zooming past & honking & braking & going around me on both sides - it was beyond nerve wrecking - I feared for my life so called 911 (and KIA roadside assistance after that) to request help as it was also now much colder weather AND I did not want to be a 'sitting duck' on the beltway any longer than I had to be.

Thank God a 911 emergency roadside assistance truck showed up in less than 20 minutes and pushed my disabled car off the beltway where I parked away from traffic to wait for the KIA roadside assistance tow which took almost 2 1/2 hours to show up. Needless to say I was VERY cold and had to turn my car off when all warning lights started flashing on the dashboard. The car was again towed to the dealership where it awaits a verdict - and I KNOW it is NOT the car battery : )

My car was basically disabled from under me AGAIN without warning on the beltway during rush hour traffic at night. I truly feared for my life - This is the SECOND time this happened this happened in two weeks - and this time was even worse than the first due to it being night time - I simply can NOT endure another episode/incident like this and would appreciate any help in contacting a lawyer for next steps.

NO consumer should be sold a car that randomly & without warning 'disables' at highway speeds - and if it can NOT be corrected then the consumer needs to be compensated for buying a dangerous car unknowingly. This is 100% DANGEROUS to all persons in the vehicle AND to every other driver & passengers in vehicles approaching or near that vehicle -

I know my incident is NOT UNIQUE; it will happen to others who own this car and someone will be seriously injured or even killed while driving a KIA Optima hybrid that randomly disables at highway speeds - and if not the owner of the KIA then the person in the car behind the Kia Optima hybrid...

This IS THE MAKINGS for a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT....