I am not mischaracterizing anything. Your entire argument is that refusing to divulge the location of the car could be "hindering a lienholder". I don't think that anybody would argue with you about that.
However that was not want the original post was about. The original post was about the creditor trying to insist that the OP repo the car for them, when the OP has no idea where the car is, and in a scenario where no sane person would recommend that the OP do that even if the OP did know. Certainly the police would tell the OP NOT to try to do it.
So really, I was trying to hint to you that you had gotten off topic.