What We Discovered When We Ran Our Own CarFax: Kia of Frisco Sold Us a Car With Hidden Collision Damage

Kia of Frisco undisclosed damage

Or: Why They Didn’t Mention the April 2025 Accident

A week after we drove off the lot in our “Certified Pre-Owned” 2025 Sorento, we decided to run a CarFax report. You know. Just to check. It’s a reasonable thing to do when you’re buying a used car—even from a supposedly certified dealer.

What we found should have been disclosed the day they sold us the vehicle.

Our car has been in a collision. And Kia of Frisco never mentioned it.

The Accident They Didn’t Tell You About

April 18, 2025: The first owner (who had leased the vehicle) reported rear damage to CarFax. The damage is classified as “minor,” but don’t let that term fool you—it was damage significant enough to require professional repair.

May 9, 2025: A glass repair company in Lewisville, Texas services the vehicle. This wasn’t routine maintenance. This was collision repair work—the kind that happens when a car has been hit.

January 6, 2026: Kia of Frisco runs their pre-delivery inspection—the same 165-point Certified Pre-Owned checklist they use to certify vehicles. According to their service records, they completed:

  • Brakes checked
  • Cabin air filter replaced
  • Emissions inspection performed
  • Oil and filter changed
  • Safety inspection
  • Vehicle washed/detailed

A comprehensive service. Professional. Thorough.

But—and this is the critical part—at no point do their records show they disclosed the prior damage.

March 11, 2026: We take possession. Nobody mentions a collision. Nobody mentions prior damage. Nobody mentions that this vehicle was repaired after a rear-end impact five months earlier.

It’s a Certified Pre-Owned vehicle. We assumed the documentation was accurate. We assumed the inspection was complete. We assumed if there was a problem, they would have told us.

We were wrong.

What Texas Law Requires Dealerships to Disclose

While Texas doesn’t have a specific statute mandating used vehicle damage disclosure—unlike some states that require it for all damage over a certain dollar amount—the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) provides critical consumer protections.

Under the DTPA, a dealer may be held accountable for deceptive actions, such as misrepresenting a vehicle’s condition, features, or past damage LegalMatch. More specifically, a dealer has a duty to disclose any known issue or defect that might affect the merchantability of a vehicle, including damage sustained in a prior collision (even if repaired) TIADA.

The key word is “known.” If the dealer knew about the damage, they were obligated to disclose it.

Here’s what’s important: If the seller knew the vehicle was damaged at the time of sale but didn’t disclose it to you to induce the sale, you may have a legal claim under the DTPA—even if the car was sold “as is” TexasLawHelp.org.

Kia of Frisco’s failure to disclose this undisclosed collision damage is clear. Their own inspection happened after the damage was reported. They had the CarFax information. They had their service records. And they sold the vehicle without mentioning it.

The Documentation Gap

Here’s what the CarFax timeline shows:

DateEventKia of Frisco’s Knowledge
04/18/2025Damage reported (rear collision)CarFax records it
05/09/2025Glass repair completedService records exist
01/06/2026Pre-delivery inspection completedThey inspect post-damage; no disclosure made
03/11/2026Vehicle sold to usSilent on prior damage
04/19/2026We discover damage via CarFaxAfter paying for our own report

They knew. They inspected. They certified. They sold. They didn’t disclose.

The Questions That Still Don’t Have Answers

  • If the damage was only “minor” (glass repair), why wasn’t it disclosed?
  • Why does their pre-delivery inspection record make no mention of damage repair work?
  • Why does their 165-point checklist show items as “Meets Guidelines” when—as we later discovered—those items were missing or incomplete?
  • What repair work was actually done, and what was left incomplete?

We have the CarFax report. We have the repair dates. We have Kia of Frisco’s own service records showing they did maintenance on January 6, 2026—after the damage was reported and repaired.

And we have silence from the dealership.

Why This Matters for CPO Buyers

The whole point of a Certified Pre-Owned program is supposed to be transparency and assurance. The dealership is supposed to inspect the vehicle thoroughly, disclose any issues, and stand behind their certification.

Kia of Frisco’s documented failure to disclose undisclosed collision damage reveals what their CPO process actually delivers—at least in our case. They:

  1. Had access to the damage report (it’s on CarFax)
  2. Performed an inspection (January 6, 2026 service records prove it)
  3. Created a checklist (165-point certification form)
  4. Failed to disclose (no mention of April 2025 damage)
  5. Sold the vehicle anyway (March 11, 2026)
  6. Relied on buyer ignorance (assuming we wouldn’t run our own CarFax)

That’s not a system failure. It’s a disclosure failure—one that may expose Kia of Frisco to liability under Texas consumer protection law.

See also: How It Took One Month to Get Kia of Frisco to Deliver a Spare Tire — another example of their documentation discrepancies

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