KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - eustace

Does anyone know of potential issues regarding availability of spares for the Kia Cerato? Given that it was only sold in UK for just 3 years, will availability of spares be an issue?

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - bimmer-driver

Consumables you'll be ok with- brakes, link bars filters etc. Its when anything out of the ordinary goes wrong you might struggle. Its not that you won't be able to get them, its just when.

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - primeradriver

As I have said before on this subject, the Cerato is a parts-bin car. It shares a platform, suspension parts, engines, transmissions, electrics and even one or two body parts with cars like the Hyundai Elantra, Tucson, Coupe, and Kia Sportage. The automatics have Mitsubishi transmissions, so you can add a pile of other cars to that list as well.

As such, I'd be very surprised indeed if mechanical parts caused any problems. Between them these cars sold in quite healthy numbers in the UK over several years (the Elantra dates back to 2000).

The Cerato sold more than the Altea in this country. If you were buying the Seat would you be asking this question?

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - eustace

Apologies primeradriver, just wanted to lay this question before a larger audience. If it was a SEAT, i wouldn't be so concerned beacuse its part of the VAG group and I would think that there are after market parts suppliers who would be manufacturing parts for the cars. I am not sure whether that would be the case for Kia.

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - primeradriver

I take your point, even hopelessly parochial cars like the Rovers do OK in their target markets. The Kia, despite being overall much more of a mainstream car than that Seat (best selling Korean in NA for a while) there may not be the import market for cheap clone parts.

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - bimmer-driver

Yes but the SEAT is a VW Golf underneath. And I'm pretty sure they sold quite a few of them.

KIA Cerato - Kia Cerato - availability of spares - primeradriver

Yes, but the Kia is an Elantra underneath. And if you do your homework you'll realise that they sold quite a few of those as well.

Given that virtually all pattern parts are made in China now I'd actually go so far as to say that pattern parts for a worldwide car are going to be more common than those for a regional vehicle like the Golf (few are sold outside Europe, although the Brazilian Jetta -- a different car -- is more common).

As such, it's more a question of finding the importer.