Vehicle
Kia Stinger
Kia's rear-drive fastback, and the only one in the range — it sits on the Genesis G70 platform with a longitudinal engine and an eight-speed automatic, so Genesis information is the right information and nothing from the front-drive Kia range applies to its driveline. The 3.3 twin-turbo V6 is the engine that defines it, and the items worth knowing are the ones that come with a hot-vee-adjacent turbo layout: heat-soaked coolant lines to the turbochargers, and a high-pressure fuel pump driven off the camshaft whose lobe wear shows as a fuel-pressure code. The electronically controlled limited-slip differential on GT cars, and the adaptive dampers, each have their own control unit and their own codes.
Generations
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First generation (CK) 2017–2023
Genesis G70 platform, longitudinal and rear-drive-based; the 3.3 twin-turbo V6's heat and fuel-pump wear are the recurring items.
- Body styles
- Liftback
- Platform
- Hyundai-Kia N3
- Engines
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- 2.0 T-GDI — petrol · 180–188 kW (241–252 hp) · 353 Nm (260 lb-ft) · Theta II
- 2.5 T-GDI — petrol · 422 Nm (311 lb-ft) · Smartstream
- 3.3 twin-turbo V6 T-GDI — petrol · 269–272 kW (361–365 hp) · Lambda II
- 2.2 CRDi — diesel · 147 kW (197 hp) · 440 Nm (325 lb-ft) · R-family, European market
- Transmissions
- 8-speed A8LR1/A8TR1 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
Service information
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