Thousands of them failed suddenly.

My thoughts exactly. CDK will recoup this from the dealers and they will recoup it from customers.

Now we have 250K miles on a 2011 Sorento that, with regular oil changes and tire rotations, just keeps going.

Yes, I had this happen to me at a Nissan dealership. They were going to evaluate my car while I test drove a new car. When negotiations broke down, suddenly they couldn’t “find” my keys. They kept trying refocus my attention on the new car. When I kept demanding my keys back, the salesman got pissed and started…

Kia dealerships are still just buy-here-pay-here scam lots at heart. It’s a shame that Hyundai/Kia have improved their products so dramatically in the last 10 to 15 years, but are absolutely hogtied by their dealerships.

Ha! Jokes on you. I never bought (could afford) a new car!

At the independent service station across the street the owner was telling me tales of woe getting parts from various dealers. Hand written orders. Packing slips that sure seemed to come out of Excel. Everything taking forever. Seems bad. 

Honest question — why does one give the dealership their car keys (for them to “lose”)? Is this for trade-in value inspection? If so, why wouldn’t you want to be monitoring their “inspection” to make sure nothing is rooked?

Now it’s $2,999

I could write an entire article on how to not be miserable buying a car, but I’ll sum it up here:

This will not affect the miserable experience in every Kia dealership, so their consistent track record can remain.

I swear, I never regretted buying our Sorento, but I have PTSD from the buying process. They tried some of the [almost] illegal tricks on us, including coming back from the test drive and not being able…

Maybe the $900 “processing fee” that every dealer tacks on to car purchases can be used to facilitate these more inconvenient registrations

Absolutely gorgeous cluster...which also appears to be excruciatingly hard to read while actually driving the thing.

Disagree. The stock CT is so ugly it has nowhere to go but up. 

Exactly. Quality costs more because it’s worth it. Wasn’t it one of the Click and Clack guys who would always say “it the cheap guy that pays the most”? Sadly in this case it’s not just paying in repairs, bad PR, loss of reputation, and compromises safety, it may also be cost in lives (and lawsuits). 

Oh my god I saw people campaigning for RFK last weekend. It was nuts. Every single one of them looked, not just like a crazy person, but like an extremely unhealthy, badly malnourished crazy person.

Trump is the biggest shit-talker I have ever witnessed - always overpromising and underdelivering.

First Gear: Donald Trump really only cares about two things, money and having people give money to him. As such, you’d think he’d be trying to win over someone like Elmo, who just got $56ish billion richer, and who directly benefits from increased EV sales.

And its not like you can tell the difference from the outside.

Their vehicles still have a small advantage, but it’s shrinking fast.