Kia Picanto any owners on here ?

copystuff

Kia Picanto owners can you give your exsperience of this car any problems and how you find it to drive and your mpg please.

Went on a short test drive yesterday in one but clutch pedal is very different to my Astra which is a smooth car to drive also it took time to even get to 40mph maybe im not driving it hard enough.

Whats your thoughts ?

Hintza

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/kia/picanto-2011

forgotmyname

Its a little car with a little engine. You need to thrash it to make progress. Of course you dont want to do that to a cold engine so get used to life in the slow lane.

Jump into 20 different Astra's and the clutch will be different in most of them.

Of course driving it hard will see the lower end of the quoted fuel consumption.

Just because the engine is smaller does not mean it uses less fuel. OK mines diesel but i can get better fuel consumption that the Picanto in my Mondeo estate.

Low speed heavy traffic will see the tables reversed though.

peter_the_piper

You probably drove the 1litre one, the 1.2 (4 cylinders) is much more nippy. I get about 50mpg in my eco one. Not had it long enough to see any faults but its a well made, nippy car with £0.oo tax. So far a good buy. As an aside, Birchwood are still doing their £2000 scrappage scheme, well were last time I went passed the showrooms.

copystuff

I thought scrappage scheme was finished. The car i drove was a 1.1 heres the advert for it to see what you think guys.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201240486913289/sort/locasc/usedcars/model/picanto/make/kia/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/page/2/postcode/de238dr/radius/1500?logcode=p

forgotmyname

YUK no... Look for a 1.2 engine. Think its a 1.25?

copystuff

forgotmyname wrote: »

YUK no... Look for a 1.2 engine. Think its a 1.25?

Any suggestions for a small 1.25 engine car thats smallish in size and very good on fuel.

peter_the_piper

Sorry, thought you meant a new one for which the scrappage applies, unfortunately not for pre owned.

copystuff

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Sorry, thought you meant a new one for which the scrappage applies, unfortunately not for pre owned.

I would look at a new car if it wasnt too exspensive after the discount the most cash i could spend is £4000 so i suppose the new car cant cost more than £6000 new and there wont be many that cheap.

copystuff

Since reading about the Crankshaft Pulley Bolt Failure on picanto cars from 2004/2009 i have gone off picanto now.

jase1

copystuff wrote: »

Since reading about the Crankshaft Pulley Bolt Failure on picanto cars from 2004/2009 i have gone off picanto now.

This is a fairly cheap thing to fix, and the Picanto is far from the only car to suffer from this kind of thing.