Kia Niro: Maintenance / Maintenance services
You should exercise the utmost care to prevent damage to your vehicle and injury to yourself whenever performing any maintenance or inspection procedures.
Inadequate, incomplete or insufficient servicing may result in operational problems with your vehicle that could lead to vehicle damage, an accident, or personal injury.
Engine compartment
■ Gasoline Engine (Kappa 1.6 GDI)
1. Engine coolant reservoir
2. Engine oil filler cap
3. Engine oil dipstick
4. Brake fluid reservoir
5. Inverter coolant reservoir
6. Fuse box
7. Engine cl ...
Owner’s responsibility
✽ NOTICE
Maintenance Service and Record Retention are the owner's responsibility.
We recommend in general that you have your vehicle serviced by an authorized
Kia dealer.
You should retain ...
Other information:
Kia Niro (DE HEV) Owners Manual: Changing the coolant
We recommend that the coolant be replaced by an authorized Kia dealer.
CAUTION
Put a thick cloth around the radiator cap before refilling the coolant in
order to prevent the coolant from overflowing into engine parts such as the alternator.
WARNING - Coolant
Do not use radiator coolant or a ...
Kia Niro 2017 (DE HEV) Service Manual: CVVT Oil Control Valve (OCV) Description and operation
Description
Continuous Variable Valve Timing (CVVT) system advances or retards the valve
timing of the intake and exhaust valve in accordance with the ECM control signal
which is calculated by the engine speed and load.
By controlling CVVT, the valve overlap or underlap occurs, wh ...