Nissan Dealership Handed Over 400 Charges

by Matthew Guy

Published: August 18th, 2023

nissan dealership handed over 400 charges

On this Friday afternoon, we find ourselves adding yet another post to our ‘Dealers Behaving Badly’ tag. This time, some former employees at a Nissan dealer in North Carolina are on the hook for more than 400 charges.

It was the North Carolina DMV that seems to have blown the cover off the place, taking it upon themselves to rightly look into alleged shady activity at Nissan of Shelby. As part of a press release by the NCDMV, we learn the investigation may have started looking into suspected shenanigans surrounding titles for salvage vehicles, only to grow in scope over time. Let this be a reminder to us all not to try and get one over on Patty and Selma.

The investigation apparently took several months and initially centered around the process used by individuals or dealers to rebuild salvage vehicles and the documents used to transfer the titles of those vehicles. Whether these were wreck or flood cars isn’t mentioned in the release but I think we can safely speculate on that particular detail. The press release goes on to say that, during the investigation, additional information was found which led to all these additional charges.

A person named Sam Kazran, apparently the dealer’s GM at one point, leads the pack with 110 counts of failing to inspect a vehicle prior to it being offered for sale, though a person named Casey Ramsey is on the hook for a total of 81 counts ranging from failing to deliver a title to improper use of temporary markers. The latter likely refers to temp tags that seem to have once been given out by this place like Tic Tacs.

It is important to note the dealer has apparently cleaned house since earlier this year, with the current GM taking to Facebook this week with a video acknowledging what’s coming down the pipe and attempting to distance themselves from the old crowd’s nefarious practices. The title ‘all-new’ pops up in all caps throughout the dealer comms as well. A complete rename may be prohibitively expensive, so it’s better than nothing, I guess. Still, good on the new GM for putting himself in the line of fire and inviting conversation by freely giving out his information.

Not all dealers are shady but stay vigilant, folks – especially when buying a car.

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Matthew Guy

Matthew buys, sells, fixes, & races cars. As a human index of auto & auction knowledge, he is fond of making money and offering loud opinions.

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Dukeisduke on Aug 21, 2023

Kudos to the new management team for getting out ahead of this. But, they still have to sell Nissans.

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Fahrvergnugen on Aug 21, 2023

Considering Nissan drivers are amongst the worst I have ever encountered, this dealership fits right in.

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