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 ...

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Kias and Hyundais Keep Getting Stolen by the Thousands and Cities Are Suing
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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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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.

"If you can't afford nice things, then you deserve to have your things stolen from you."

You are a dick.

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

Note that this only affects the US. Hyundai and Kia are fuckin excellent cars in Europe, it's just that they can get away with selling any old shite in the states due to the lack of consumer protection and the fact that them daft cunts will buy shit like TVs with advertising built in and internet that costs $100 a month lol

Hyundai and Kia are fuckin excellent cars in Europe

How's that GDI doing? lol

lack of consumer protection

Kia was the only group doing this lol everyone else has had immobilizers since dinosaur times

the solution here is to just buy ANYTHING ELSE