what are you talking about?
What I'm talking about is that this thread (and other ones on this forum) are filled with stories of massive numbers of Forte engines failing, primarily vehicles from Canada posted by Forte Facebook group users. Whenever I've asked questions of these posters, they almost never reply at all, and absolutely never offer any proof of what they're saying. No conversation, no credibility.
Be advised that I'm no Kia fanboy, and am fully on board that there have been a very large number of Theta GDI/Turbo engine failures. However, I have never seen anything so far that indicates there has been an excessively high number of Forte engine issues.
Now in your specific case, you wrote: "there was 7 cars ahead of mine for getting engines rebuilt." That's what I don't believe. First off, Kia dealerships do not rebuild engines under warranty because the Kia corporation does not allow that to be an option. The only approved warranty choice for dealers is to install a new or rebuilt replacement engine, sent to them by Kia. Reading between the lines, IMO that says quite a bit about how the corporation feels about the capability of their dealership service departments.
So that must mean that all 7 of those vehicles in line for a rebuild were also out of warranty. I just simply don't believe that 7 other owners were forking over 6K to rebuild a seized engine, when a used engine can be found and installed for far less than that. Plus, there's the consideration that rebuilding a seized engine is a questionable proposition under any circumstances.
It's well known that there are trolls and (competing) dealer types running around on all of these auto forums, trashing out whatever the particular vehicle make is. So anyone new (i.e. with no history) who shows up with a story that doesn't exactly add up, becomes a suspect for being one of the above.
But you can prove at least one important part of what you wrote by simply posting an image of the paperwork you received from the Kia dealership for the engine rebuild they did for your vehicle. Do that and your story gains lots of credibility. When I'm wrong about something, I have no problem admitting it. But if you don't post back, then your story goes into my waste basket, along with most of the rest of them.