2005 Kia Sedona Ex Mini Passenger Van 5-door 3.5l on 2040-cars
Hinsdale, Illinois, United States
I bought this van for my wife about 5 years ago. I bought a Trailblazer and she took that and I started driving this. I was working as an asst. manager and was working a lot of hours and coming home one night and fell asleep just north of rt126 on interstate 55. I bought all of the sheet metal to fix it and had a body shop pull the front end out and hang all the sheet metal. I have been driving the van every day to work and the brakes in the front are starting to not release right away. With the brakes the way they are it makes driving it in the rain pretty interesting. I had the van aligned at pepboys and they did a ok job, the steering wheel isn't straight and before the breaks started acting up it didn't pull. The air bags did deploy which broke the windshield so I had a new windshield put in it. This van is not in anyway perfect but it only has 88000 miles and everything still works. It has the DVD system in for the back seats and it works fine I have the remote for it also. power seats I changed the rear hatch because my back window was broken out in my driveway. There is in a dent over the right side rear door that was caused by a branch falling on it. The front tires are new the rear could use replaced. I wouldn't mind keeping it and giving it to my 16 year old daughter but my wife hates seeing it anymore. The van does run great I would drive it any place I have drove it to Wisconsin since the accident. With a little work this could be a great van again I just don't want to deal with it anymore. I am going to put the reserve high but I am wanting to sell it so if the reserve isn't met that doesn't mean I won't sell it. I like motorcycles and suv's pickups I just want something different. If you have any questions just ask my number is 630-401-0001 I prefer text but call in you need to just please don't call after 10 p.m. central time.
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