Posted on 11/30/2023 7:19:51 PM PST by grundle
It’s getting worse. I’m seeing so many homeless camps popping up in Tacoma and graffiti has exploded everywhere. Sad how this state has declined so much in 20 years.
Kia fixed this problem over a year ago...
If he had stopped at the dealer service they would have done it for free.
That was a really biased article blaming all car thefts by implication on Kias...
Did Kia support Trump or some other “sin”?
How many cars get stolen a month and what kinds?
Something fishy here, IMO about the great KIA smear.
Maybe they are kicking Obama’s GM a$$
Tell Her to go to South Texas and cross the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas. She will just get in line and get all kinds of “free” stuff: Cellphone, $4000.00 pocket money, a Car, Voter Card, Housing Voucher and relocated to the City/State of choice.
Are we sure it’s not a Gnocchi ?
“Federal Way is by far the worst suburb of Seattle-Tacoma”
I think Kent/Auburn may be worse.
In Seattle White city and Beacon hill.
Tacoma would be Hill top.
A USB cord is neede—and you have to smash a window to get inside...
What's to stop the owner simply padlocking the steering wheel? What's to prevent the owner from simply chaining the outside door handles?
Regards,
Maybe he need to start voting "defund-the-police" Democrat trash out of office!
(Yeah, I know: He might already be trying that.)
Regards,
LOL! Well done!
I work with two people who had their Hyundai’s stolen because of this same issue.
Tech fail. Like usual.
“What’s to stop the owner simply padlocking the steering wheel”
Good point, whatever happened to those steering wheel lock thingys that were advertised on tv all the time years ago?
My coworker had her Hyundai stolen. A week after getting it returned to her and having this glitch repaired from the dealer it was broken in to because someone tried to steal it thinking it was vulnerable.
Kia and Hyundai should both be sued.
A club like device is kias answer to the problem
Well there's your real problem!
Cars with kias “fix” are still being stolen.
Why? Are they the ones stealing the cars? What laws have they broken?
I’m heading to my dealer today to get the problem resolved. The thefts of Hyundai’s and Kia’s has dropped a lot lately, probably due to the kids being back in school.
Meanwhile, with the supply chain issues, things like car windows are almost impossible to find. My car window was broken when my car was stolen and because insurance companies are only picking up one month of rental car expenses, I was liable for the rest. I got hit with over 1500 dollars in charges from the rental car place that the collision place said they would pick up. Did they? Of course not.
It would have been cheaper to just abandon the car. Oh, 2013 and 2014 Hyundai owner.
“Maybe he needs to move out of his sh***y neighborhood”
Has nothing to do with neighborhood. Where I live there were numerous Kia’s and Hyundai’s stolen. Kids learned how to jailbreak the cars from a TikTok video and this summer went on an auto theft rampage. Kids broke into the cars, took them for joyrides and left them usually in fast food parking lots.
Meanwhile many owners, such as myself hoped the police wouldn’t find the car so we could collect on the insurance. Problem was cars were found, we had to eat the 500 deductible and rent cars until parts could be found to fix the cars. My ignition was fixed in three days. It took almost two months to get the auto glass replaced. Collision place found my glass on ebay.
“She had crummy insurance”
More like she bought liability only and not comprehensive. She is a crummy owner.
I just looked up how freaking easy it is to steal a Kia. Pop the plastic cover off the steering wheel area and use a USB stick to simply turn the ignition to run. Wow. Stupid simple.
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