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Nov 12, 2024
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kccougar
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Ah, so they are basically trying to lowball you. Don't trust them.
Sounds like you would be far better off selling the car yourself rather than trading it in.
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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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