What did you do to your Kia Stinger today?

[Ohiocruiser]

Explain, please. What is that supposed to do?

Well, since I removed the spare, I needed something to support the liner and whatever I load in the trunk. I installed similar construction made out of aluminum. But since I can't weld aluminum, it was bulky and very flexible. That steel one is lighter, and theoretically should stiffen the body of the car.

 

[RedCal]

That would be nice, but it's a single car garage with not much room, and it's not heated.
Can't really do anything out there when it's this cold. Boo hoo.

I'll try and send some warm(er) weather your way... in the interim, hang on!! spring is coming!

 

[LordKOTL]

Funny. Hot Wheels made four, actually, first year Blue, then Ceramic, then Red and finished up with Black/Panthera, I can't tell for sure that small which it is.

True--I looked up the colors made. I just meant in general; that they made a Stinger. Before yesterday I didn't think Hot Wheels made/would make a Stinger--I thought it would have been like the Mitsu GTO/3000GT: Hot wheels finally made one some 30-odd years after the fact.

Shows you which hole in the ground I'm living in

 

[Snicklefritz]

True--I looked up the colors made. I just meant in general; that they made a Stinger. Before yesterday I didn't think Hot Wheels made/would make a Stinger--I thought it would have been like the Mitsu GTO/3000GT: Hot wheels finally made one some 30-odd years after the fact.

Shows you which hole in the ground I'm living in

A 3000GT? I didn't know that. Obviously haven't seen/noticed one, yet, now I'll be on the lookout. There are many of "us" living in many holes. Hah.

I have a couple of chrome Hot Wheels badges, c. 1.5" high c. 3" long, with black enamel background. I got them to slap on an "owie" I made trying to knock back a scratch just forward of the driver's door. The touchup doesn't look too bad, but I can see it a bit too easily to satisfy me. Since Hot Wheels made Stingers, it seems like the natural thing to cover my mistake. Haven't put it on yet. I think warmer weather is advisable for adding 3M backed badges.

 

[JSolo]

Drove the car after having it sit out the deep freeze. Last time it was started was on 1/8! It fired up instantly, as though it was already warmed up. It's ~38F w/100% humidity today. Of course, the key was keeping the battery on the bat tender.

 

[Ah GetFd]

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[rpoffen]

Took up an offer from Extreme Online Store (you can find then on Facebook or instagram. They wanted to test fit a new spoiler design. It is similar to the Scorpion spoiler.


Took up an offer from Extreme Online Store (they are on Facebook and instagram) to test fit a scorpion style spoiler.

 

[Buzzman12]

I'll try and send some warm(er) weather your way... in the interim, hang on!! spring is coming!

Thanks. It worked. Got above freezing yesterday.
Rained a bit in the morning, which washed the roads clean, and then it cleared up.
I took out the Stinger in the afternoon. Felt really good. Gave it a bit of a shot after it warmed up.
I forgot just how quick this thing is, compared to the Mazda. It's back in the garage now.
Hopefully I'll have an another opportunity soon. Spring can't come soon enough.
Cheers everyone.

 

[fastoy]

I forgot just how quick this thing is, compared to the Mazda.

I'm a new 2023 GT2 Stinger owner. I'm really impressed as how quick the turbos come on. I have a C8 Corvette Stingray as well. It's power comes on steadily while the Stinger's comes on in a huge burst.

 

[Buzzman12]

I'm a new 2023 GT2 Stinger owner. I'm really impressed as how quick the turbos come on. I have a C8 Corvette Stingray as well. It's power comes on steadily while the Stinger's comes on in a huge burst.

Very little if any turbo lag, which surprised me when I first got mine.
My son had a BMW X1 with the 2.0 turbo, and the lag was horrible. I hated driving that thing.

 

[Buzzman12]

Probably the wrong thread but I have a quick question:
How do you remove the black side vent thingy that's on the front fenders behind the front wheels. I'm guessing they are cooling vents for the brakes, but one of mine (driver's side) has a bunch of little black plastic granules in it. I have no idea where they came from. I'd like to remove it to clean it out and see what's going on.
Thanks.

 

[fastoy]

Probably the wrong thread but I have a quick question:
How do you remove the black side vent thingy that's on the front fenders behind the front wheels. I'm guessing they are cooling vents for the brakes, but one of mine (driver's side) has a bunch of little black plastic granules in it. I have no idea where they came from. I'd like to remove it to clean it out and see what's going on.
Thanks.

Carefully!

 

[Deviate]

Probably the wrong thread but I have a quick question:
How do you remove the black side vent thingy that's on the front fenders behind the front wheels. I'm guessing they are cooling vents for the brakes, but one of mine (driver's side) has a bunch of little black plastic granules in it. I have no idea where they came from. I'd like to remove it to clean it out and see what's going on.
Thanks.

Careful though the clips do break. Not always just go in to it knowing that. Could just be road debris did you hose it out or blow it out yet?

 

[Buzzman12]

Careful though the clips do break. Not always just go in to it knowing that. Could just be road debris did you hose it out or blow it out yet?

I noticed it when I washed it a bit earlier on. Some of the debris came out from underneath the bottom of the vent with the water.
It's fine enough that it runs out of the bottom gap between the vent and fender.
I stuck my finger in the bottom hole of the vent, and I can feel the loose debris just sitting there. I might be able to vacuum some of it out, just to see what it is. It looks like scrunched up pieces of black plastic. I'm guessing it's just left over from the manufacturing process.
Not a problem, but it's intriguing none the less.

 

[Snicklefritz]

I noticed it when I washed it a bit earlier on. Some of the debris came out from underneath the bottom of the vent with the water.
It's fine enough that it runs out of the bottom gap between the vent and fender.
I stuck my finger in the bottom hole of the vent, and I can feel the loose debris just sitting there. I might be able to vacuum some of it out, just to see what it is. It looks like scrunched up pieces of black plastic. I'm guessing it's just left over from the manufacturing process.
Not a problem, but it's intriguing none the less.

Don't remove anything. Either use a wand touchless car wash power sprayer, or forced air from a compressor. Ether will blow that debris out. When I wash my car at the touchless wash, I aim that spray straight in the hole and watch the water emerging out the other end, then reverse it and do it again.

 

[Buzzman12]

Don't remove anything. Either use a wand touchless car wash power sprayer, or forced air from a compressor. Ether will blow that debris out. When I wash my car at the touchless wash, I aim that spray straight in the hole and watch the water emerging out the other end, then reverse it and do it again.

Always learning here.
I backed the car out of the garage today and took another look at the crap in the vent.
Here I am, thinking the vent was just a plastic fake clip on. I did not realize it actually had an opening to the wheel well. Live and learn.
In my neighbourhood, not only do they salt the roads, but they also spread sand and fine gravel.
The stuff in my vents is the fine gravel kicked up by the front wheels. Even though I drive through my area very slowly, it still threw pebbles in the vents.
I cleaned them out with a vacuum (my garden hose is frozen...lol)
This brings up another idea though:
I don't drive my car hard, so I'm thinking of taping up the opening in the wheel well with black tape to stop crap from getting in there.
The vents serve no purpose for me. The brakes don't heat up enough the way I drive to make them useful.
Thoughts?

 

[Snicklefritz]

Always learning here.
I backed the car out of the garage today and took another look at the crap in the vent.
Here I am, thinking the vent was just a plastic fake clip on. I did not realize it actually had an opening to the wheel well. Live and learn.
In my neighbourhood, not only do they salt the roads, but they also spread sand and fine gravel.
The stuff in my vents is the fine gravel kicked up by the front wheels. Even though I drive through my area very slowly, it still threw pebbles in the vents.
I cleaned them out with a vacuum (my garden hose is frozen...lol)
This brings up another idea though:
I don't drive my car hard, so I'm thinking of taping up the opening in the wheel well with black tape to stop crap from getting in there.
The vents serve no purpose for me. The brakes don't heat up enough the way I drive to make them useful.
Thoughts?

Rather than tape up the functioning vents, put wire mesh in them. There are a number of drivers on here who have done that, but no one has talked about it for some years. Mainly that expedient is out of an excess of caution, should the tire flip up an actual pebble that makes it through the vent and emerges to smack its way down the side of your doors. I've had my Stinger for nigh on six years and never noticed that as an issue. Gravel would still get in, it would just likely take longer to accumulate to that point and you notice it.

I think that the functioning "brake" vents are more about aerodynamics than cooling. But that would not come into play unless or until you reached super high extra legal speeds, say in the region of 130 plus MPH. I have done this, and I concur with real performance drivers who have tested the Stinger, who say that its aerodynamics are very well designed and that the car is very stable at any higher speeds it is capable of reaching. If you shut off the airflow, what would that do? Not a question I am interested in finding out. That question is in the same category as removing one or more of the undercarriage panels and then going extra legal speeds. I am sure that they too are part of making the Stinger slip through the air and staying well planted.

 

[D.J.]

 

[Buzzman12]

Rather than tape up the functioning vents, put wire mesh in them. There are a number of drivers on here who have done that, but no one has talked about it for some years.

That's a great idea. Wish I had thought of it.
I will definitely go that route.
Thank you all.

 

[LordKOTL]

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