Well it's now 2026 and I finally traded in our 2022 Niro Hybrid for a 2026 Sportage Hybrid and I really thought things would go real
easy and honest and upfront as getting my Niro serviced at this dealership, also I thought things would be like how they advertised on
TV. Let me start from the beginning so you all don't miss a thing. Clay Cooley's Sales personnel are great especially our salesperson (
Braydon Sorensen). He is well educated in about everything Kia for one thing, which is always nice so you get to hear about all the
extras about the vehicles. Although we didn't really get to know the sales management, they to appeared to be on par just as Mr.
Sorensen was. So sales department is top notch and conducted themselves just as the service department has always treated us.
Absolutely no complaints about the sales department. Now we get to the finance department and one Mr. Marcel Yanto. In a 1 to 10
rating 10 being the worst, he rates up around 20. He conducts business like how a con man plays the three shell game (slide of hand).
It starts with this extremely long wait just to get in to see him. Now I know a little about this routine, it is designed to get you feeling the
need to hurry and get this over with cause your so tired of waiting. It is done so the customer won't dwell on having to see and read
everything before they sign it. It gives the finance people a chance to slide things by without ever showing the customer what they are
actually signing. Now having everything done electronically also sets up the customer for more slide of hand stuff. If you ever done any
signing of documents electronically you know you have to get your signature added to the electronic document before you start
actually using it to sign the documents, and this is what we thought we were doing only to find out we were actually signing documents
without ever seeing them. He was having us sign documents without actually showing us the complete documents stating that he
would fill out most of them later after we were all done in so not to keep us waiting there any longer then needed. We were real fools
for trusting him to do the right thing, and because of the rest of the dealership has always been so upfront and honest with us Mr.
Yanto took us for thousands of dollars. And their Family Guarantee is only good if you can actually get a hold of anyone to help you.
We got so fixated on canceling Ally VSC and Ally Maintenance (it costed $5100.00), we never got around to even looking at all the
documents we had signed blindly. To start with we didn't get a copy of all the documents we signed, all we got were the Vehicle Buyers
order and the Ally paper work along with a bunch of paper work stating our rights and stuff like that. No copies of any of the power of
attorney stuff (there were like three as I remember being told we had signed that he would fill out later again to save us time. Also
although almost everyone thanked me for my service to the country it was never added to the deal for an extra $500.00 off the price of
the vehicle as it states in the about Clay Cooley paper work. We never got the window sticker like you almost always are offered it,
and I know why now. Because of the Cooley advertisement of paying what's on the sticker and adds stating of so much off the sticker
price. I saw the window sticker for the Sportage we purchased and it said including freight and handling it was just over 34 thousand,
but when I see the price on the "Vehicle Buyer's Order " it stated it was in the 36 thousand neighborhood including freight and
handling. So right there is $2500.00 in the slid of hand game. Final thoughts is I can't trust anything this dealership does and if at all
possible I will never ever even drive my vehicle on any of their car lots ever again. I realize the mistakes I made in trusting that this
Clay Cooley Dealership would conduct business as they say they do, and I should have demanded to see the documents we were
signing. For this I guess it's on me and they owe me nothing, but keep in mind this is most definitely a "Buyer Beware Dealership" and
is not to be trusted to do the right thing, it's on you. See them first, see them last, but do not let your guard down. Good Luck. read more