Southwest Kia of Rosenberg - My girlfriend's car was stolen by this dealership

Good grief, Batman. The last year has been rough for you and yours. A cab assaults you in one of my favorite cities, and now a car dealer attempts to do something I would have believed back in the '60's and '70's, but not today, not that blatantly. Bizarro World erupting in full flower. I thought Refman had some good advice. Try the county sheriff, who's office covers all these juridictions, and most definitely sue the hell out of them. A decent attorney just might take it on a contingency basis. This sounds pretty straightforward to me. Good luck and keep us updated as the drama you didn't intend to direct finds its ending.

 

My advice is:

1. Lawyer up

2. If you have the officers info who came to your house, call HPD and find
out who his sargent is. A stolen vehicle is a criminal matter, not a civil.
Unless the officer mistakenly thought it was a repo, there is no excuse
for this. Talk to his sargent.

3. Sue the hell outta them.

Hope this helps. It is a real crappy situation, and wish you the best of luck with the whole ordeal. Good Luck

 

Do you want me to pass this along to our investigative team at ch 2?

 

I didn't get to read any of the thread, but I will say your girlfriend should not be in the business of stealing cars in the first place.

 

You weren't asking me but absolutely!

 

Oh. My. God.

This EXACT same thing happened to me and my wife at Ancira Kia here in S.A.!!!

Reading your story was almost like reliving a f...ing nightmare for me. I feel for you, man. We bough a brand new '09 Kia Optima for her (probably a lot nicer than your thinking a Kia would be, we're very happy with it). Anyway, we traded in her '06 Jetta and got a great deal on this car, got the contract signed, drove home.

About a WEEK later, the asst. GM of the dealership calls my wife and says that "the payoff for our trade in fell through, and that we needed to come in and renegotiate." She comes home from work and tells me this, naturally, I gave this jerkwad a call. He says the same thing to me and says that if we don't bring it back, he'd report it stolen or just repo it. He said that his dealership "still owned the car because our financing fell through." I was FURIOUS. I told him, you come on out and get this MF car. I'll be here waiting for you.

But secretly, I was scared. I don't know the first thing about laws concerning these matters and I didn't quite know what to do. So I called Kia directly and asked, "Do I own this car, what's going on here, has my FINANCING fallen through?" They said that I ABSOLUTELY owned the car and that if i wanted to make my first payment over the phone, they'd gladly take it.

So I called the head GM of Ancira Kia thinking maybe I'd get past the dirtbaginess of car dealership workers if I just talked to someone in charge. Nope, he fed me the same lines of BS. For the next several days, they called us both multiple times with threats and harassment. The worst thing was, they hadn't payed off our trade in and Volkswagen was now calling us for a late payment on our OLD car. This went on for a month.

Luckily, my wife is a hygienist for a very prominent dentist here in town and I finally suggested she ask him for advice. He took an immediate interest in it knowing one of his employees was being screwed and told her, "don't you worry about this." He called one of his attorney friends and he came right over to her office and they all called this GM again...this time the lawyer did the talking...he practically dared the guy to repo the car and asked him to stop contacting us and to start contacting him on the matter. The douchebag GM apparently caved. They eventually paid off our Jetta, albeit a month and a half late, and we got to keep the car.

Sorry for the looong "uncool story, bro"...but I just had to share this after reading about your plight. Lawyer up, man. A signed contract is a signed contract. You WILL win if you pursue this.

 

It is absolutely unbelievable to me that anyone would try something like this. Are there really that many people in this world who would just let this happen to them without consulting a lawyer to make it financially feasible for these salespeople to try a stunt like this? That makes me so sad.

 

Unfortunately, yes. There ARE a lot of people that would let this happen to them. We didn't, but we were lucky in that we know a rich dentist with friends in high places. Even if we didn't know him, I would have absolutely eventually contacted a lawyer myself.

As for the OP, it doesn't seem like he even had a chance to consult an attorney before his property was stolen from him.

 

god damn that's amazing. hope all goes well for you batman and cool story disciple

 

dang... well of course you will get a lawyer involved and maybe you can get enough money back you can buy like 20 kias

 

Don't we have a channel 2 employee who posts here? Maybe he can pass this on to whoever does consumer report stories.

 

I tried calling the channel "whatever" news defenders here in town regarding MY problem...but Ancira is a huge, HUGE presence in this, the dirty butthole of TX that is know as San Antonio. Ancira advertises on all of their stations regularly. I considered this after I had called and didn't expect anything from it.

Maybe the OP would have better luck considering Houston is a MUCH bigger city and the dealership in question is from out of town anyway...and doesn't sound like one of the big "players" in that market at that.

Bottom line: LAWYER THE F UP! I'm going to take quite an interest in this story and I really hope the OP keeps us informed on what happens.

 

Look @ post #23.

Channel 2 should do a story on this. In these economic times, we need to crucify scumbags that pull this BS... and sue them too!

 

With 2 different Kia dealerships, Channel 2 could do a giant Kia expose!

 

pshhh I hear Maserati has GREAT customer service.

 

Clutchfans > Kia franchise

They have no chance.

 

you probably are right. clutchfans is somewhat like a wikipedia/yahoo answers rolled into one with experts abound.