Kia Niro: Maintenance services / 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 documents that show proper maintenance has been performed on your vehicle in accordance with the scheduled maintenance service charts shown on the following pages.
You need this information to establish your compliance with the servicing and maintenance requirements of your vehicle warranties.
Detailed warranty information is provided in your Warranty & Maintenance book.
Repairs and adjustments required as a result of improper maintenance or a lack of required maintenance are not covered when your vehicle is covered by warranty.
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 ser ...
Owner maintenance precautions
Improper or incomplete service may result in problems. This section gives instructions
only for the maintenance items that are easy to perform.
✽ NOTICE
Improper owner maintenance during the war ...
Other information:
Kia Niro 2017 (DE HEV) Service Manual: General safety information and caution
Safety Precaution
Precautions to take before servicing
high voltage system
Since hybrid vehicles contain a high voltage battery, if the
high voltage system o ...
Kia Niro 2017 (DE HEV) Service Manual: Description and operation
Description
Regeneration Brake
System
During deceleration or braking of an electric vehicle or HEV, the drive motor
acts as an alternator and charges the battery by converting the vehicle’s kinetic
energy generated during braking into electrical energy. Regenerative braking am ...