Shawnee Mission Kia ripoff Anyone who is looking for a car please do yourself a favor, Stay away from this place. Overland Park Kansas

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.