Kia's Effective Cooler : Kia new car review 2008

Kia's Effective Cooler
by John Garett
Boasting value and a youthful and energetic image, Kia Motors has risen as a major global automotive player. Since its inception in 1944, Kia has emerged from being a mere bicycle parts manufacturer to being Korea's first exportable automobile manufacturer. True to the original meaning of Kia, which is "arise or come up out of Asia," the Korean manufacturer boasts of an ever-expanding product line-up that is sold through 179 distributors and over 3,300 dealers in 155 countries around the world. Combining innovation and practical design, Kia constructs cars and auto parts that are known for their light weight. Kia parts are made up of application of alternative, lightweight metals such as aluminum and magnesium, which are much lighter than traditionally used steel. These materials are known to be lower in density than steel and are recyclable. Kia radiators, for example, have aluminum metal grates, in which hot coolant passes through and dissipates large amounts of heat very quickly. These metal grates act as automobile radiator's cooling cores. They they cool quickly in the airflow that comes through the grill of a car, roadster, or SUV. When a Kia Sedona or a Kia Sorento is at a stoplight or is going very slowly, a fan attached to your engine forces air across the radiator cores to continue engine cooling. All Kia cars, MPV's, and SUV's use the same basic auto radiator cooling system to keep their internal combustion engines from overheating. In a typical case, the heat from the controlled ignition of diesel or gasoline in an engine's cylinders needs to be dissipated safely to prevent an engine from getting too hot. The Kia radiator is designed to give a simple and effective solution to the need for an automobile's engine cooling. Aside from aluminum, Kia radiators have parts that are plasma-coated, which contributes to improving the engine efficiency considerably by up to 70 percent. Kia radiators, a cooler liquid passes through the engine, where the cooling system transfers heat from the plasma-coated metal of the engine block to the liquid. The hot liquid coolant then passes out of the engine and needs to be cooled. This coolant is usually one half water and one half anti-freeze (Propylene Glycol), although an engine can be cooled down with entirely water as long as the temperature in an area never reaches freezing point. The engine coolant in an auto radiator system only flows one way. Only coolant that has flowed through the radiator cores can enter the engine. This process ensures that the coolest liquid is always entering the engine and the hottest is always heading for the radiator. Many modern and contemporary engines, like those of Kia, will also pass oil from the automatic transmission through an oil cooler attached or built into the auto radiator. Kia's radiator may be a relatively simple technology, one that has been around almost as long as automobiles have been in production, but it has been part of Kia's modest efforts to surpass customer expectations through continuous automotive innovation while epitomizing the enabling values of the Kia brand.