A Pennsylvania judge has ordered Hyundai Motor America to pay Knight Motors $9,784,075 in storage fees after refusing to repair 163 Sonatas subject to an engine recall.

The affected units were among 628 purchased at auction by Knight Motors, an independent dealership in Pittsburgh. All were equipped with Hyundai’s Theta II engines and subject to a 1.6 million-unit recall. Attorneys for the dealer accused the factory of destroying physical evidence and deleting emails central to the case.

The judgment is based on fees of $25 per day, per vehicle, and Hyundai has to pay its own transportation costs, according to Yahoo Finance’s Olivia Richman. Automotive News was first to report the decision.

“Rather than honoring the recall obligations like any responsible automaker would, Hyundai apparently looked at the volume of claims coming from Knight and its peers, decided something smelled fishy, and in May 2019 made what the judge later called a ‘stunning decision’ to deny every single claim tied to Knight Motors — all at once, no nuance, no individual review,” Richman writes.

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