They are going to try and "do him a favor". If you follow the VIN after, it goes right back into the auction line.

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Nov 12, 2024
3:15:47pm

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They are going to try and "do him a favor". If you follow the VIN after, it goes right back into the auction line.

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Bought a Kia Carnival with 80k miles in May of this year for $28k.

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 3:03pm

Man that sucks. Carnival is also a crappy name. Why did they choose it?

Mississippi

Nov 12, 3:10pm

Why did they choose it? That made me laugh.

pink22

Nov 12, 3:31pm

Especially since Midway was still available.

Q-grr

Nov 12, 3:45pm

Dealer is always going to extreme lowball to get you into a new vehicle.

camp_chef

Nov 12, 3:10pm

They are going to try and "do him a favor". If you follow the VIN after, it goes right back into the auction line.

AltTabbins

Nov 12, 3:15pm

Are you sure? Why was the local KIA dealer looking at it to begin with?

kccougar

Nov 12, 3:12pm

we took it into trade into a new vehicle. we were done with this car's errors.

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 3:17pm

Don't let the dealer bully you, take it to a 3rd party. The dealership sounds extremely shady.

AltTabbins

Nov 12, 3:19pm

there's the dealer we're at now, and there's the car place we bought it from.

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 3:26pm

Ah, so they are basically trying to lowball you. Don't trust them.

kccougar

Nov 12, 4:58pm

Sounds REALLY suspicious. What electrical problems specifically? What makes them think it was in an accident too?

AltTabbins

Nov 12, 3:14pm

the car's left vendor was always sticking out a bit. missing clip.

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 3:25pm

Sounds like a lot of that could be from something simple like a low-voltage battery.

kccougar

Nov 12, 4:59pm

Like a battery going out?

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 5:20pm

Yeah. My Honda odyssey was having all those issues this summer.

TexanY

Nov 13, 3:49am

I had similar issues with a new RAM truck. It was a single bad battery cell.

runningfoo

Nov 13, 6:08pm

KIA has not been good lately. I'm dealing with "Optima burning oil issue" and

Dangerous

Nov 12, 3:25pm

What electrical problems have you noticed? Dealers love to lie about the

byubyu

Nov 12, 3:26pm

Kia comes with a 10 year 100k warranty right? Is that not still in effect?

Ycrazy

Nov 12, 3:35pm

Only on new purchases. 5/60 on used

FT487

Nov 12, 3:36pm

This. No warranty on the vehicle

Cougarclaw

Nov 12, 4:00pm

2025 Carnival base msrp is $36K. How is one with 80K miles worth $28K?

Rooney

Nov 13, 4:35pm

I would bet it's not the base model. There's a huge difference between base and

byubyu

Nov 13, 6:25pm

Correct, it’s an EX or mid trim.

Cougarclaw

Nov 13, 7:02pm

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