Kia T8D

1.8 L · inline-4 · naturally aspirated · petrol · 1997–present

Also known as: t8d, 1.8 kia, sephia 1.8, shuma engine

Kia's 1.8 four — in the Sephia, Shuma and Carens.

⚑ It is a Mazda engine. Kia built Mazda's BP family under licence, so Mazda material and Mazda parts logic apply, and mazda-b-series in this catalogue is the page that actually describes it. Searching the Kia badge finds very little; searching BP finds the Miata and Protegé world.

It is a belt-driven, port-injected, twin-cam design — and it is an interference engine, which on a car of this age with unknown history is the decision that matters.

Its running complaints are pre-modern: a distributor that fails with heat and gives an intermittent stall, a tired idle control valve, and inlet gaskets that harden and leak unmetered air.

Cars fitted with this engine

6 generations, across 2 makes. From the authored catalogue — an absent car means the catalogue has not reached it, not that the engine was never fitted.

Kia

Volvo

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