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Kia Richmond

Richmond, BC

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251 Reviews

5660 Minoru Blvd

Richmond, BC

V6X 2A9

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251 Reviews of Kia Richmond

December 26, 2019

Been dealing with this great crew since 2010. This year they really stepped it up. I caved in and bought a new 2020 Soul. Totally blown away with this amazing machine. I was pleased to see the renovation o More

by Bruce
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Allan Lal, Artem Nokhrin, Mehdi Moghareh, James Green, Cody Francoeur, Angelo Barigello
November 16, 2019

Very accommodating, did everything he could to give me the best deal and I'm quite satisfied with his service. Highly recommended! Will recommend him. More

by nbashannon
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Liam, excellent sales experience., James Green, Sandra Wang
Nov 19, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

It was such a pleasure to earn your business. It was Liam's first car sale and he could not have asked for a more wonderful client to experience this with. Please let us know if you need anything.

November 08, 2019

Service Experience My Toyota Highlander was fixed to the best of my satisfaction by this dealership service department. I am especially thankful to Alan Lal the service More

by Sunita & Sahil
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Allan Lal
Nov 09, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

Sounds like we earned this 5 star review. I recall messaging with you and it was a refreshing pleasure to deal with a client like yourself. Sir you have a ton of class and we respect you for it.

October 22, 2019

Satisfied with the repair Thankyou to James Green, sales manager who kindly made sure my car was repaired (faulty seal on windshield led to a big leak during rainy weather) as More

by Red Kia Soul Owner
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Allan Lal, James Green
Oct 22, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

You are welcome. you have a direct line for James and can reach him anytime.

September 12, 2019

Honest, Caring Employees .. You'll become one of the family! Gurvir was such an honest and motivated salesman- he would do anything to make you happy with your purchase! Although young, he was knowledgeable, fri More

by Erin
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Mehdi Moghareh, James Green, Gurvir Grewal
Sep 12, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

Thank you for sharing your experience with Gurvir. This type of feedback is exactly how a young man can build his brand. Now the whole world knows and for that we thank you. We also want to sincerely thank you for your business.

September 03, 2019

Brian was very helpful and knowledgeable Brian was very knowledgeable and helpful with finding the right car for us! We were looking at the hybrids and PHEVs, and lucked out at their VIP Cus More

by MM
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Brian Matsumoto
Sep 05, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

We truly appreciate your kind and positive words. We are happy to have Brian Matsumoto on our team and equally happy to have you as our client. We look forward to many more amazing experiences with you, your friends, and family. Thank you!

August 23, 2019

Gurvir was amazing Gurvir did a fantastic job. He got me a great price, and was incredibly honest and helpful. I defientley recommend seeing him and the dealership. More

by Car buyer
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Gurvir Grewal
Aug 24, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

Thank you for recognizing Gurvir and his effort to learn this business. We are lucky to have young honest dedicated people like Gurvir. We look forward to seeing you again, and please remember to take advantage of your lifetime car washes. Thank you again for your business.

August 22, 2019

Thank you We had a great experience working with Mehdi to find a car that not only fit our lifestyle but also our budget. He found multiple options within our p More

by TiffanyL
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Mehdi Moghareh, Gurvir Grewal
Aug 24, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

Tiffany we know you will continue to love your 2020 Sportage. We really thank you for your continued patronage of Kia Richmond. Lets keep this relationship with you folks and your Sportage strong by taking advantage of our competitive service options. If you need anything further don't hesitate to reach out.

August 20, 2019

Satisfied customer A big thanks to Homer Abbas-Pour for his aid and dedication to task in the purchase of my new Kia. I would also like to acknowledge Mehdi Moghareh an More

by cardel96
Customer Service
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
Yes
Employees Worked With
Homer Abbas-Pour, Mehdi Moghareh, Sandra Wang
Aug 24, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

Satisfaction is our specialty! Allow us to continue this service with your lifetime free car wash services. We will be here anytime you need us, so do not be shy to ask in the event you need us.

August 16, 2019

Extremely poor customer follow up. serious mechanical issue with the car I bought only 6 weeks later. Kia blames the make of my vehicle, telling me they don't like selling them because More

by appalled
Customer Service
Quality Of Work
Friendliness
Price
Recommend Dealer
No
Employees Worked With
Mehdi Moghareh, James Green, Cody Francoeur
Aug 18, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

It is always a difficult conversation and situation when a vehicle has a repair. Especially European import cars that often have a larger cost of repair than other automobiles in the market. I totally understand your frustration being that you had the car for 6 weeks and drove approximately 4,000 kilometers in those 6 weeks. I hope you can understand that the average driver would take almost 3 months to put 4,000 km worth of travel on a vehicle. I would ask you to consider this when you are assessing this situation. With regards to a proper safety inspection. Every client who purchases a pre-owned vehicle from Kia Richmond receives a vehicle that has had a full inspection ensuring safety and functionality. Your 2012 Volvo with less than 90,000 km was no different. Tires, and brakes, were measured, and the vehicle was inspected. Yes, with any pre-owned car a dealer has an option to replace all kinds of items such as brake pads, rotors, tires etc.... Where I want to be clear to hep us get on the same page is as follows: You came from out of town to our destination location to see a pre-owned vehicle. you came because you love Volvo, and because we had an attractive price. You bought because we negotiated the price to well under market value and sold to you at a wholesale price. Be aware when a dealer makes a statement that "they would have Replaced Brakes and Rotors" if they sold the vehicle may very well be true. However, the price you would have paid for the vehicle would have been much higher as a vehicle with brand-new brakes and brand-new rotors would cost more than a vehicle without. There was no smoke and mirrors in your purchase, as you were provided with an inspection report that indicated the wear of the brakes, and this amount of brakes remaining was enough to satisfy passing safety. You confirmed in your email and review that you were provided with this document at the point of sale and that you shared it with Volvo. You had a repair on your vehicle and that is unfortunate. In the pre-owned car business, no one has the ability to predict what will and will not fail in the future. We simply have the option to address what requires immediate resolution, and make sure documents are provided as such. The part that failed on your Volvo was viewed during inspection with no signs of undue wear or cracking on the auxiliary belt and no sounds from the engine to indicate trouble. Yes, we did ask you if you had in fact questioned Volvo as to how one of their top model flagship SUV's would have such a failure at only 93,000km. I would think that you would want some explanation if this is a common issue or not. I would also be curious if you have researched the history of this failure online, as you did choose to tow your vehicle to them instead of to us, the shop you purchased from (the car did break down here on the mainland aprox 40 km away). We totally understand you live out of town and bringing your vehicle to us is not convenient, unfortunately any help we could ever offer in this respect would be service provided in our shop. I think that makes sense. You did have the option to call us before proceeding with the repairs and inquire what our cost would be and if we had any resolution to offer. You elected not to. Having a mechanical break down on a long weekend is not an ideal situation. I would like to offer you some insight into how it took some time to get back to you. During this August long weekend holiday both your Sales associate and the General Sales Manager had scheduled some of their annual vacation time (these were the people you chose to reach out to). With respect to our GSM, any of the times he was in the building during those days were simply one-off visits to address specific issues during his vacation. I accept that our communication time back to you was delayed. I also suggest that if you have an urgent matter that requires immediate attention describing your needs to our reception would have landed you on the Phone with a sales manager whose role and responsibility is to deal with these situations. Please accept that if the dealership is open there is always someone available in a leadership role to assist clients. This would have been immediately resolved had you have considered raising your concern with the manager on duty. This is in fact how and why James Green reached out to you in response to your social media review. Any further delay was subject to your dialogue that implied you were seeking resolution from the VSA. This type of complaint requires a different level of response, and you decided to pursue this before even notifying us there was any issue at all with your Volvo. From your initial communication to us it was apparent your vehicle was back on the road, and that your desire was to fast track and seek assistance from the VSA. This, as mentioned above puts your request for communication into a more delicate category due to your choice to involve the VSA. Every business has a process regarding how they deal with resolutions. I understand your choice was to request to speak to the General Sales Manager. Our dealership has a path of escalation, and the General Sales Manager is not the first point of contact. This is the same with most business as you have a front-line team trained to deal with situations and only once this is exhausted should things be escalated to senior supervisory individuals. Any choice to circumvent this process, will result in delays. We did ask you to provide any documentation you have to support the measured brake pads and rotors completed by Volvo. We asked for this to be clear in showing exactly what the findings are, to validate the findings, and to specify front and or rear. You indicated this is all verbal communication with the service department at Volvo. I am sure you can understand why such claims would have to be validated in writing. Unfortunately, you could not produce this in writing or in any formal manor. The reason we asked you to provide documentation was to politely make you aware that if the dealer is not giving you this in writing you may want to exercise some degree of skepticism. Officially I want you to know we sold this car in good health with no issues. We did our due diligence, and in responding to your claim that there is some way to have predicted this failure through an inspection is not logical. I do not think you will be able to find even one licensed mechanic to provide an official documented opinion that this failure could have some how been predicted. you yourself even indicated that with no warning signs the vehicle suddenly began to smoke with an awful smell. Further more you drove over 4,000 km on your Volvo in a short time period, and in doing so there would be brake wear as well as daily wear and tear on the components of the vehicle. Any number of factors can impact this such as and not limited to, towing, to extremely lengthy road trips, running the vehicle in extreme Summer heat and so on. You did indicate you reached out to the VSA to resolve this complaint. You are correct that you must reach us in writing first. However, you do have to also request in your writing exactly what it is you are asking for to satisfy your resolve. I will Save you the back and forth and be clear the Kia Richmond will not pay to you any monies or costs incurred from the repairs performed to your Volvo surrounding this incident.

Aug 20, 2019 -

Kia Richmond responded

We have received and responded to your experience. We did try several times to reach you and had a tough time to reach you on the phone. When the call was disconnected we did try to reach back to you unsuccessfully. You do have the official written response you requested. We ask that should you require further assistance for this matter or any other that you request the available sales manager on duty and reference that you have been dealing with James Green. All of our Sales Managers are empowered to resolve client issues and immediate response is available 7 days per week.

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