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I have had really minor issues with my car. '10 SX Koup

Day one of taking her home, the window trim was a bit stretched out, and left a ripple down the side of the window, was replaced in a couple days.

second was, I noticed a weird buzz whenever I would start my car, and rest at idle at lights, etc. Turns out this was the screw in my shifter gear indicator label plate (I think that's what it's called) coming loose. I would take my hand off the shifter every time I came to a stop lol. Dropped in, again fixed in a few minutes with loc tite.

I have since left said dealership, I intend to do a full writeup at a later date to inform current and future Kia customers of what I went through, but I want to make sure I have a clear head first (2 days and I'm still seething).

NOW, My sister has a EX sedan, and from about 2 months in until now, she has this weird buzzing noise coming from the passenger side of her dashboard. It sounds like if you held a pencil in a moving fan. It would start at ignition, go for about 30 secs to 2mins at idle, start again under acceleration. It goes away after the engine hits 3-3.5k in 2nd, right about the shift point into 3rd. It doesn't go on again unless we come to a complete stop and idle for more than 10 secs. Rinse, Repeat. We had it taken to another dealership and they could not find anything immediately wrong with the vents, fans, or anything immediately accesible. The only thing they could really resort to was taking my sister's car for 4 days and completely disassembling and reassembling the dashboard. Unfortunately, my sister has a particular need for her car all the time and cannot spare any time without it. The dealership would not offer her any sort of loaner car in the meantime.

My sister has somehow found some sort of dial combination, heat dial at mid heat, fan speed at 1 and vent type set to defog and feet.. and the noise does seem to go away after initial startup.

ergo, that case remains unsloved... for now... unless anybody out there has any suggestions. I would REALLY appreciate it.