In California, replevin cases are typically filed in the Superior Court of the county where the property is located or where the defendant resides. While repossession does not involve a formal process in court, replevin consists of getting the court to order the consumer to return the vehicle to the lender.In California, a vehicle can be repossessed if the borrower fails to meet their loan obligations or fails to make insurance payments. If a car loan lender can't repossess a vehicle, it will probably get possession of the car through a process called "replevin." The sheriff has to do this. At no charge to you, the City of San José will tow away and dispose of unwanted vehicles from your property, limited to vehicles that are registered to you. You may be able to file an incident report online, and once it has been processed, receive a Police Report that can be used for insurance purposes. Basically call all the loans due and repo the other car which may be paid up to date. It gets The Debtor's attention. 2. My car was repossessed for just missing one payment, and they would not let me have my personal items out of the car until I pay a storage fee.