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Complaint Review: Kia Motors - Joplin Missouri

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  • Kia Motors Kia Roper , 908 Illinois Joplin, Missouri U.S.A.

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Kia Sportage may be the last car you ever own! Why? Several good reasons:

It is a real Off Road Vehicle! If the pavement is wet in the least you will spin like a top and end up - Off of the Road! It is engineered to be a cross between a cheap sports car and a cheap jeep. It handles and drives like an insane wild mule on steroids and metamphetamines! The suspension system, what little there is, is just awful, and will give you spinal problems from the miserable rough ride!

Great Warranty! You will need it - until you figure out that you cannot spend the rest of your life taking it back to the dealership and just give up! It is just a cheap piece of junk! In all fairness to the dealership - they cannot make an acceptable car out of a Kia. Windows malfunction, doors malfunction, knobs come off in your hand, inserts come flying off of wheels, windows break if hit by a bug, and the go cart engine misses and sputters - just to name a very few Kia terminal repair problems. The Kia self-destructs while it just sets in your driveway! You will get to where you are afraid just to look at the thing! A Kia is a very depressing sight for its owner! Kia makes the Yugo look like a Lincoln!

The little lady has been making around $400.00 a month payments for the death trap, for two years now, for her $15,000.00 Kia. She still owes around $14,000.00 for it. Why? Kia financing! The dealership took advantage of her being in a grief reaction over the death of her sister to tack on every useless add on warranty and charge imaginable, and some which no sane person would ever think of! The interest rates are the highest I have ever seen outside of a pawnshop! By the time she gets through paying for it - she could have bought another home - on the lake yet. Right now she owes around $14,000.00 for a Kia which is worth around $5000.00, if we could find anyone stupid enough to buy the thing.

The Kia has the worst resale value imaginable, and you will have to pay handsomely just to get any car dealer to take it in as a trade! And after having this one - we really can't blame them!

It looks like the Kia will be the last car we ever own! If we do not die in this death trap, we will spend the rest of our lives paying for it! And worst of all - we have to spend the rest of our lives riding around in a self destructive, abusive riding clown car! Thanks to Kia Motors and Roper Kia in Joplin Missouri!

Do yourself a favor. If you are seriously considering buying a Kia, just shoot yourself. It will be a lot more fun, less painful, make more sense, and you might just live afterward - unlike Kia ownership! You do not own a Kia, the Kia owns you - forever! Kia ownership is like a very bad horror movie with lifetime, non-ending sequels, made in Korea - Kia!

Most likely, a Kia will be the last car you ever own!



Chris
Joplin, Missouri
U.S.A.

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#7 Consumer Comment

Kia Owner Here

AUTHOR: Frank - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 16, 2005

Look, I have owned US cars of every company and some foreign ones in my life. Let me make myself clear, I own my SECOND KIA IN A ROW now !!

That's right. Nothing but problems every month with the Fords and Dodge Chryslers. But Kia,............... Low Low Price for a good reliable vehicle. Sure Kia had some negative press in past few years but so did all of its Japanese Rivals once upon a time and instead of sticking their heads in the sand like the YUGOS, they toughed it out, increased their warranty, and built today far superior autos than most competitors priced under 30 thousand, especially anything made just a few years ago.

Sure you can get a state of the art anything else, but why? Unless your Net Income is Big Enough to support it.

I'm not paid by Kia nor affiliated, except for the part of being an honest customer.

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#6 Consumer Comment

Kia Owner Here

AUTHOR: Frank - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 16, 2005

Look, I have owned US cars of every company and some foreign ones in my life. Let me make myself clear, I own my SECOND KIA IN A ROW now !!

That's right. Nothing but problems every month with the Fords and Dodge Chryslers. But Kia,............... Low Low Price for a good reliable vehicle. Sure Kia had some negative press in past few years but so did all of its Japanese Rivals once upon a time and instead of sticking their heads in the sand like the YUGOS, they toughed it out, increased their warranty, and built today far superior autos than most competitors priced under 30 thousand, especially anything made just a few years ago.

Sure you can get a state of the art anything else, but why? Unless your Net Income is Big Enough to support it.

I'm not paid by Kia nor affiliated, except for the part of being an honest customer.

Thank you.

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#5 Consumer Comment

Kia Owner Here

AUTHOR: Frank - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 16, 2005

Look, I have owned US cars of every company and some foreign ones in my life. Let me make myself clear, I own my SECOND KIA IN A ROW now !!

That's right. Nothing but problems every month with the Fords and Dodge Chryslers. But Kia,............... Low Low Price for a good reliable vehicle. Sure Kia had some negative press in past few years but so did all of its Japanese Rivals once upon a time and instead of sticking their heads in the sand like the YUGOS, they toughed it out, increased their warranty, and built today far superior autos than most competitors priced under 30 thousand, especially anything made just a few years ago.

Sure you can get a state of the art anything else, but why? Unless your Net Income is Big Enough to support it.

I'm not paid by Kia nor affiliated, except for the part of being an honest customer.

Thank you.

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#4 Consumer Comment

Kia Owner Here

AUTHOR: Frank - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 16, 2005

Look, I have owned US cars of every company and some foreign ones in my life. Let me make myself clear, I own my SECOND KIA IN A ROW now !!

That's right. Nothing but problems every month with the Fords and Dodge Chryslers. But Kia,............... Low Low Price for a good reliable vehicle. Sure Kia had some negative press in past few years but so did all of its Japanese Rivals once upon a time and instead of sticking their heads in the sand like the YUGOS, they toughed it out, increased their warranty, and built today far superior autos than most competitors priced under 30 thousand, especially anything made just a few years ago.

Sure you can get a state of the art anything else, but why? Unless your Net Income is Big Enough to support it.

I'm not paid by Kia nor affiliated, except for the part of being an honest customer.

Thank you.

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#3 Consumer Suggestion

I'm doing my part against KIA. Hear that, Dealers?

AUTHOR: Marc - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Saturday, November 05, 2005

With all the gas-price gouging going on in Honolulu, a few people I know are looking to buy new cars. Out of the four new cars bought so far, only one insisted on buying a Korean car, a Hyundai. This person (a woman)knows absolutely nothing about vehicles except the "great financing and low price" of Korean junk and wouldn't hear anything else, but I did talk the other three out of KIA. I don't know if I've hurt the dealer though, they all sell various brands. I told the Hyundai buyer not to bring it to me when it breaks.

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#2 Consumer Comment

Kia defintion

AUTHOR: Jonah - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Saturday, November 05, 2005

My dad figured it out Kia has a meaning. Korea Invades America. nuff said.

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#1 Consumer Comment

Kia falls short. nice you can keep your sense of humor

AUTHOR: Tom - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, September 28, 2003

Pretty colorful report! It's nice you can keep your sense of humor after all that.

I know a guy who's brother-in-law sells these cars. When I was looking for a used Camry in the $10k range (in 1998), he kept telling I could buy a BRAND NEW car for the same price with a great warranty. To finally shut him up, I showed him an issue of Consumer Reports giving it a horrible review. It was interesting how people rationalize. He kept insisting any problems are covered. You couldn't go wrong.

He thought I was stupid to buy a used car from a private owner! ("What if it breaks? You have no warrantee!") I just insisted you don't need one. Many Hondas/Toyotas are built well and with quality parts. Heck, my last car was my brother's '84 Accord and I got rid of it when it was 15 years old, with over a quarter million miles. (I bought it for $1,000.00, 7 years old at the time, with 140,000 miles on it.) Never broke down, never left me stranded. That car was over-engineered.

Perhaps The Great Thorn will respond to your woes.

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