Kias and Hyundais Keep Getting Stolen by the Thousands and Cities Are Suing | A viral Tiktok trend that began in 2021 demonstrated how the companies failed to install a basic anti-theft technology …::A viral Tiktok trend that began in 2021 demonstrated how the companies failed to install a basic anti-theft technology that made them trivially easy to steal.

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    1 year ago

    the companies failed to install a basic anti-theft technology

    Failed to install or weighed the cost of not installing it and kept the profit?

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      1 year ago

      I also have to wonder how much it was fueled by the silicone shortage, omitting electronics in order to get a car out the door, as other manufacturers did (albeit in a smarter way, so not that any of this stuff exempts Hyundai/kia from criticism)

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    1 year ago

    It’s such a shame, I had a 2011 Kia Soul that was my favorite car I’ve ever owned (and notably not in the model years with the immobilizer problem). Unfortunately some moron crashed into me earlier this year and totaled it. My first thought was to replace it with another Soul but their reputation is so bad at this point that I had to go with something else. Six months later a Soul that I test drove is still sitting at the same used car dealership. No one will touch them.

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    1 year ago

    If you bought a cheap Korean car for misers you deserve to have it stolen and you deserve to find metal shavings at the bottom of your oil pan when the cops get it back for you.

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      1 year ago

      “If you can’t afford nice things, then you deserve to have your things stolen from you.”

      You are a dick.

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        1 year ago

        refuses to buy a used Passat like a normal person

        buys Kia Soul

        Soulstolen.webp

        how could this happen

        the stupid deserve this and worse tbh