Kia Recall - replaced crank pulley bolt and it sheared off - refuse to cover

The pulley bolt sheared on me on Sunday 05/13/2012, on my Kia Soento 2005. I agree there should have been a recall. I have never seen a bolt sear 1/4 inch from the tip.

I have a 2003 Kia Sorento that I purchased last March. I got into it the other day to leave, cranked it up, and heard a knocking noise. My uncle just looked at it and called to tell me the crankshaft bolt is broke. I now am looking up about it and find all this out about the recall. I was completely unaware of this problem and I am on very upset customer right now. I will calling the dealership I bought it from first thing in the morning.

If anyone is interested in a class action suit please contact me asap 856-716-0886 2005 kia sorrento engine problem THANKS

I bought a 2005 Sorento used. Crank bolt broke in Nov 2011. Just broke again.... Kia part person this happens quite often. I am calling Kia tomorrow.

Just bought a used 2003 sorento in January, and two days ago, the crankshaft bolt came out. took the fans out and replaced it. Started the motor and it fell out again before I could put it in gear. POS vehicle imho. bad on gas and finding a manual (which only kia makes) is frigging impossible.

I have a 03 Sorento..6 months ago I had a broken crankshaft bolt replaced at a local garage...3 weeks ago I had timing belt replaced at kia dealer ( they had to remove and replace crankshaft bolt ) a week later crankshaft bolt breaks and no one ( Kia or Dealer ) wants to help with repair cost. 

Would like to hear from people about lawsuit

I too have had this problem. I have a 2005 Kia Sorrento. I do all my own wrench work. I replaced the timing belt and torqued the crank shaft bolt to the 130lb torque (didn't replace the bolt because this isn't normal). 3-6 months later it backed out and seized. While trying to take it out it broke off in the crank shaft. Being a reasonable person I went down to KIA to see what they would do. They said they would charge me over $100 to review the problem. If it was covered under warrantee they would see if it could be replaced under warrantee and they would refund my money. I told them it was obvious what the problem was and the bolt was the same color as the recall bolt but the car missed the recall date by 30 days. I then did what any reasonable person would do, knowing I had a very large paper weight, and bought a new car (this was after much research on the engine and lack of parts and re-man engines at the time, a MAZDA 5, Highly recommend). After much research I found that if you use carbide tipped drill, you can drill out the center of the bolt. Don't use easy outs or dry ice in the hole, as the easy outs just get mad and break off. I pushed the broken easy out through the bolt into the space behind the bolt. I then tapped the bolt a smaller size, after that I tapped the bolt the size of the crank shaft and the remains of the bolt came out as foil. This worked great for 3 years. Last night it sheared off again. Working on engines my whole life, I have never seen a flush mount harmonic balancer on any engine. The only thing to keep this from spinning is the torque of the bolt and a roll pin. This is the craziest design I have ever seen for such an important bolt. Everyone else uses a woodruff key and the pulley slides over the crank shaft. Very bad design. I guess I'll do it again, It's now my daughters college car which is a 6 hour drive. This sucks bad, bad, bad, design. KIA's look great, but their "urgy's" are not up to USA standards. That would be Metallurgy, Painturgy, plasticurgy, and oh by the way, design and engineering. Oh this car also has a drinking problem never saw more then 18mpg.

This motor is a great motor other than the crack bolt issue. Need to be aware and check pulley for wobble once and a while. Change timing belt and water pump every 60-70K to be sure they don't reuse the bolt I would mark the bolt with a paint marker and see if its been changed out after service. This bolt gets torqued which stretches the threads to keep it tight. You cannot put it back in or it will be loose even after torqing it again which will only cause it to go in further than it should and stretch the bolt more which will cause it to sheer off after some use.

i have a 2004 sorrento ive had to replace the bolt because the pully came out for the 3rd time plus replace the the crankshaft sprocket bcause it breaks the pin everytime it comes out loose im sow sick of it,is a problem does vehicles have all does modles of sorrento then kia should take responsability and fix the problem at no cost to us.

posted a previous comment on Oct 3, 2011. That *** bolt broke again. Am so pissed off. My mechanic has suggested that I trade this bucket of bolts in. He was told by the Kia auto parts person that the piece was redesigned. They redesigned the piece without doing a recall. My mechanic also suggested that I contact a lawyer.