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