The Kia warranty is for 7 years or 100,000 miles and covers everything except wear and tear items.

Here is a link to the T & C's

www.kia.co.uk/owners/warranty/warranty%20terms%20a...x

It clearly says in the warranty book that the customer must retain all reecipts for parts and labour for service work, without them no warranty. That applies to independant or dealer servicing.

Kia allow Independant servicing for the whole 7 years provided it done exactly to the schedule with OEM materials and the correct lubes etc. But there is a catch, any savings you make will be lost when the car has to go to a Kia dealer every year for the body inspection. Its free with a service but take it along after servicing elsewhere and they charge, up to £50.

So basically the OP has no receipts so no warranty. Its in the service book and T & C's so no point persuing it.

The exclusions in Kia's warranty are no different to those in any other manufacturers warranty. But with a Kia you get 7 years on most components providing you keep to the T & C's. We only had a couple of issues with our Ceed and both were sorted with no arguement (even a holed A/C condensor was replaced FOC and I expected that to be blamed on a stone)

If you want a rubbish warranty buy a Ford. After year 1 its a dealer warranty and they say everthing is trim and trim is excluded. Colleague had the handbrake lever fall apart in his S Max, dealer said it was trim.

Possibly. A timing chain failure is usually caused by a lack of lubrication - which could be caused by the wrong oil or the wrong oil filter, or not enough oil.

You have to prove that the parts were correct (with invoice from the garage supplier to the garage) you have to prove the oil used was correct (no use the garage saying it was, you have to prove it was, with a receipt/invoice again).

Oh dear, the previous owner going cheap on the last service has really thrown a spanner in the works.

Yes poor oil or poor filtration over time could cause oil blockages or starvation (just as low oil level and oil left in too long can damage things), the timing chain is probably lubed by a few tiny oilways splash feeding it, it doesn't take much to block these oilways as thousands of owners of certain popular modern Diesels are finding out to their cost as their turbos seize, if the timing chain is starved of oil the chain guide will wear rapidly and the chain stretch, causing it to run slack and then jump.

The problem with your engine might be nothing to do with the parts or oil used, but without the magic fully invoiced service record i suspect you are up the creek here without a paddle.

If Kia are going to reject warranty it might be cheaper to pull the car out of their clutches before they dismantle it and let an indy, whom you trust, sort the problem for you, its going to be quite labour intensive and half the dealer's hourly rate is worth saving.

Edited by gordonbennet on 12/11/2015 at 19:46

think I'll sack Kia warranty

No need to do that, the previous owner did it for you.