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  • Report:  #61244

Complaint Review: Shawnee Mission Kia - Overland Park Kansas

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- CLINTON, Missouri,
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Shawnee Mission Kia
7810 Shawnee Mission Pkwy Overland Park, 66202 Kansas, U.S.A.
Phone:
913-403-8800
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My wife went to Shawnee Mission Kia for a van for her transport business. With a $1,000.00 down the best they could do was a 95 Plymouth Voyager. We were told that the milage on the van was actual milage of 42,000. I told my wife if that was correct then it was a good deal.

We took the van on a trip to Illinois that day, 40 miles away from the dealership it started cutting out, the break light came on and could hear a lifter knocking lightly. We called Kia and they gave us some run around and told us to bring it in on Wed. This was Monday. Then we found the drivers seat to be broke. I just wish this were the bad part.

After returning we took the Van to a local dealership to have it looked at for a whining noise. We were told the fuel pump was going out, the breaks were worn, and if the van only had 42,000 miles it was because the speedodomoter was unhooked or messed with. The wear on the engine was from a vehicle with over 100,000 miles. We took the van to a second dealer and was told the same thing.

Sitting at home we get a call from John Muntz saying he needed to get a hold of my wife concerning $200.00 that she owed on a promisary note since the raised the down payment from $1,000 to $1,200.00. I told them she would be in to pay it. He said that the bank wanted it.

Well if I can remember the bank financed the amount after the down payment, so we called the "bank" and was told that he had no right to call us, that they had the account now. Two days later he called again, I told him my wife would be in on Friday, she lost a baby and was in the hospital, he said he didn't care and that this was owed before that. I told him that we would be in Friday to return the van because all the problems.

We feel that we were lied to about the actual miliage, they say the vehicles go thru inspections, well they must have some pretty shady mechanics: to let a vehicle go with almost no breaks, break light that came on, broken seat, engine missing a stroke very badly, we thought it was a vacuum line off, but it wasn't. We were told we had a major problem.

Last night after I told him this he called the bank and the van was towed off. They knew we were having it looked at for fraud and the only reason the had it picked up was they knew we had them. The payment wasn't due, they told the bank we were going to be first payment default. Easy way to hide their lies.

We still have written written statements from other dealers on what they found with the van and plan further action against Shawnee Mission Kia including the Attorney General. Anyone who is looking for a car please do yourself a favor, Stay away from this place.

Sam

CLINTON, Missouri
U.S.A.


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Pam

K,
Washington,
U.S.A.
It sounds like Federal Odometer Disclosure Fraud

#2Consumer Suggestion

Fri, June 20, 2003

occurred at some point in the prior transfers of the Vehicle. If, at the time you bought the vehicle, the odometer was in fact NOT working, the Odometer Disclosure you signed at the dealership should have read, "true miles unknown". All cars less than 10 years old require this disclosure at time of sale. It's a Federal law. You could do a "carfax" report online, on the VIN number (Vehicle Identification Number) and find out the previous milege records and previous Stes of registration, and sometimes more. It is a BIGTIME Federal offense to mess with odometers, or to not do the disclosure accurately to a buyer. Another great clue will be the "repair service record" through the manufacturer, kept while the car was under warranty (at least first 36,000/3years). Anytime Plymouth original warranty work would have been done by a dealer, the odometer reading would have been placed in a Plymouth database to qualify the repair as still under warranty. I suggest you contact a new car Plymouth dealer service department in person, and ask for a report to be run on their Repair/maintenence/recall database. They can print it out for you. Good luck. If you can document that odo fraud has occured, so should have the dealership. You can propbably get the dealer to unwind the deal and the loan should be null and voided, in writing.

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