Good Jerry Smith KIA in Burlington, Washington get massive thumbs up!

[AviatikD1]

The folks at Jerry Smith KIA in Burlington, Washington (just north of Mt. Vernon) sure have treated my wife and I well. I have been a KIA owner for a long time (2004) and the 2003 Optimas that we purchased have served us well. The dealership we bought them from was bought out by a different group and so when we were searching for a good deal on a Stinger AWD for me, we ended up visiting the Jerry Smith Dealership. The sales staff treated us well and negotiated hard, but worked with us until we got a deal we felt good about. Also, other interactions with their staff (picking up plates) and going in for scheduled service have been a pleasant and comfortable, worry free experience.

I arrived way too early for a scheduled appointment and, rather than making me wait several hours, they worked my car in sooner... much sooner and had it back to me in less than an hour.

Thanks for your excellent customer service.

Regards,

A. Weaver

 

[MerlintheMad]

Howdy! I enjoy a good Kia recommendation story. I could match yours with mine.

(Why are you partial to that particular aircraft, that you'd use it as your handle?)

 

[Jeaddi]

I believe that’s same owner or network as Smith Kia in Bellingham, which is where I purchased my previous Stinger and current one. Great service there as well!

 

[AviatikD1]

My 2.0T AWD was driven from there to Burlington for me. As far as nightmare experiences go, the old KIA of Kirkland was the worst. At first they were great, but after we traded our Mazda MPV in they changed their minds after agreeing and selling us two Optimas (a silver 2.4 cylinder silver Optima, and a cranberry red LX V-6). They came back later saying they'd messed up on the deal and the bank needed us to rework it. This was days later after we'd had them for several days. Basically, they wanted to get themselves a higher interest rate and more money. They were a pretty shameful lot. Lee Johnson took them over. Threatening we'd come in with our paperwork, bill of sale, and our legal representative basically put a stop to that.

 

[AviatikD1]

Howdy! I enjoy a good Kia recommendation story. I could match yours with mine.

(Why are you partial to that particular aircraft, that you'd use it as your handle?)

I've always liked the word... it explains me, a WWI Aviation fanatic. I was the designer for the WWI Aviation Historical Journal "Over The Front" for 16 years and also restore vintage photographs and design book covers for Flying Machines Press (now defunct) and now Aeronaut Books. There is an example of that aircraft in the Personal Courage Wing at the Museum of Flight. It was a very maneuverable fighter aircraft in Austro-Hungarian KuK Fliegertruppe. It was more maneuverable than the other Austro-Hungarian fighter aircraft... but, got a bad reputation due to a licensed builder simplifying the wing design without permission... with bad results. Several of the top LFT pilots flew it, Julius Arigi (32 victories), Frank Linke-Crawford (27 victories), as well as several others.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I've always liked the word... it explains me, a WWI Aviation fanatic.

There was a time, long ago, when I was pretty fanatical about 1WW air combat history. The gearhead side of it - engines and airframe design, etc. - never gripped my interest much. Piloting and dogfighting and killing did. I co authored/designed wargame rules for playing dogfights and other missions in 1WW, using full 3D "flight sim" combat (our preferred scale is 1/72 models): in fact, I'll be playing again this Thursday night. Old friends who are old, that makes me old: been playing this game since 1974. It went commercial in a small way. Currently it is in a perpetual edit that will never be finished I'm afraid. (I do not play computer simulations.)