
Also the front tires appear to be out of balance.Terrible noise by our standards (like unsafe bad), but hey son is a real live Mechanical Engineer lol. Spouse and I swapped cars with him and spent a lovely Saturday evening trying to determine if it was the front left or front right wheel bearing (or some of both). He tells his mom it sounds like the back. ToolGuy "Drivers may notice a noise or vibration if there’s an issue, but the failure could happen without warning."Son came to town the other week for a friend thing, 'my car is making a noise' read the ancillary text.The Seltos is an effortless vehicle with which to live. Yeah, it’s a damned crossover like basically everything else on the road - but it’s what people want. Yes, it’s fitted with all of the safety tech we expect from our cars these days, but the Seltos presents them in a friendly, easy-to-use manner. That’s why I find the 2022 Kia Seltos refreshing. Beyond powertrains, the massive number of driving aids and electronics doodads and geegaws (yeah, I’m old) packed within each new car on the road would likely inspire awe in a time-traveling Apollo-program engineer from 1968. Automotively, we’ve progressed over the past decades from simple hybridization to full electrification - I’m likely to lay down my wrenches altogether if I need to repair an EV when I’m sixty. More than once I’ve pondered the possibility of adapting carburetors to both.īut progress marches forth. I’m mentally throwing wrenches at the twenty-year-old German project car in my garage since it’s not nearly as straightforward to repair as the thirty-year-old Japanese project car right next to it.

I suppose I can be an occasional automotive Luddite.
