2012 HYUNDAI GENESIS Complaints

BRAKE PEDAL OCCASIONALLY WILL NOT ENGAGE THE BRAKES UNTIL IT IS AT THE FLOOR. FEELS LIKE A BRAKE FAILURE AT FIRST AND THE PEDAL MOVES ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR BEFORE THE BRAKES ENGAGE. ALMOST HAD A WRECK RUNNING INTO THE BACK OF SOMEONE FROM THIS. IT DOES NOT DO THIS ALL THE TIME, BUT IS NOW HAPPENING MORE FREQUENTLY. USUALLY ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK.

I WAS TURNING TO PARK IN MY PARKING SPACE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CAR BEGAN TO ACCELERATE WITH SUCH SPEED THAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD JUMP THE CURB AND CRASH INTO MY HOME. I WAS UNABLE TO STOP THE CAR AND THE BRAKES WERE UNRESPONSIVE. IT HIT THE CURB AND FINALLY CAME TO A STOP WITH A TERRIBLE SHUDDER/NOISE.

HEADLIGHTS TURN OFF WHEN TURN SIGNAL IS USED AT NIGHT. WHEN MAKING RIGHT TURN LAST WEEK AT NIGHT USED RIGHT TURN SIGNAL APPROXIMATELY 100 FT PRIOR TO TURNING. FRONT LIGHTS WENT OUT AND CAR TURNING IN FRONT OF ME ALMOST HIT ME BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T SEE ME BECAUSE MY LIGHTS WERE OFF. OTHER HYUNDAI GENESIS OWNERS REPORT THE SAME PROBLEM. DEALER UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE PROBLEM. HEADLIGHTS FLICKER WHEN TURN SIGNAL IS USED

THE CAR WILL NOT START WHEN THE TEMP OUTSIDE IS ~40 DEGREES F OR LOWER OUTSIDE. IT WILL CRANK NON STOP (PUSH BUTTON START) BUT WON'T EVER START. CAR BATTERY IS ONLY TWO MONTHS OLD. CRANKS FINE WHEN THE OUTSIDE TEMP RAISES BACK UP TO AROUND 45 DEGREES F AND UP. WHILE DRIVING TODAY ON THE INTERSTATE, ON THE BRIDGE, THE CAR RANDOMLY LOST ALL ENGINE POWER. TRYING TO STEP ON THE GAS PEDAL WOULD RESULT IN THE CAR STUDDERING. I TURNED ON THE EMERGENCY SIGNAL AND JUST CRUISED INTO THE SIDE LANE OUT OF TRAFFIC. TURNED THE CAR OFF AND ON AND NOTICED THE RPM IDLED AT 1500 RPM WHICH IS INSANELY HIGH. I PUT IT IN 1ST GEAR AND GAVE IT GAS, AND NOTHING HAPPENED. THE RPM METER WOULDN'T GO UP. AFTER A FEW MORE TIMES OF CUTTING THE ENGINE ON AND OFF AND THE ENGINE WOULDN'T START A FEW TIMES ALSO, IT FINALLY STARTED AND SEEMED TO WORK NORMALLY. NOW THE CAR HAS A CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ON.

TIRE WEAR UNEVEN, RIGHT FRONT PASSENGER WORST. CONSTANT SEVERE PULL TO THE RIGHT ABLE TO CHANGE LANES TO RIGHT WITHOUT HANDS ON STEERING WHEEL. AND VERY MINIMAL PULL TO LEFT AT TIMES WHILE DRIVING ON HIGHWAY (MOST NOTABLE) AND CITY STREETS. WHILE DRIVING FEELS LIKE CAR BOTTOMS OUT OVER BUMPS/HOLES OR ON CITY STREETS/HIGHWAYS WITH ROUGH ROAD SINCE PURCHASED IN 2012. CANNOT ADJUST ALIGNMENT ON RIGHT SIDE, RIGHT CAMBER ALWAYS NEGATIVE AND TOLD NO FIX FOR THIS AND CAUSE FOR EXCESSIVE WEAR ON TIRE AND PULLING TO RIGHT. PAINT CHIPPING UNDERNEATH DRIVER SIDE DOOR ON BODY. BOTTOMING OUT AND TIRE PULLING TO RIGHT FIRST LOOKED AT ON 11/21/2012.

THIS PROBLEM BEGAN OCCURRING AT AROUND 60,000 MILES. WHEN EITHER STATIONARY OR IN MOTION, THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS WOULD EITHER NOT COME ON AT ALL OR WOULD JERKILY (IS THAT A WORD?) MAKE THEIR WAY ABOUT HALFWAY UP THE WINDSHIELD AND THEN FREEZE. THEN AT SOME RANDOM TIME, THEY WOULD EITHER JERK THEIR WAY BACK TO THE PARKED POSITION OR CONTINUE JERKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE WHOLE SWEEP AND THEN BACK TO THE PARKED POSITION, USUALLY STOPPING ONCE OR MORE TIMES ON THE WAY. THIS IS A COMMON OCCURRENCE ACCORDING TO POSTS FOUND ON THE GENESISOWNERS.COM SITE. (HTTP://WWW.GENESISOWNERS.COM/HYUNDAI-GENESIS-FORUM/SHOWTHREAD.PHP?T=8567 ). IF YOU READ THE POSTS, ONE MAN ALMOST HAD A HEAD ON COLLISION WITH A GASOLINE TRUCK WHEN HIS WIPERS DECIDED TO QUIT IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAINSTORM. MY LOCAL DEALER INSISTS HYUNDAI DOES NOT CONSIDER THIS A SAFETY ISSUE WHICH TO ME IS MINDBOGGLING. WITH A POTENTIALLY RECORD BREAKING EL NINO NOW ON THE WAY, PERHAPS IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOMEONE GETTING KILLED BEFORE HYUNDAI FINALLY SAYS, "GEE, WE GUESS IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE AFTER ALL." IF THIS DEFECT IS NEWS TO DOT, I CAN SEE NO REASON NOT TO INSIST ON A RECALL. IF, HOWEVER, DOT IS AWARE OF THE ISSUE AND HAS DONE NOTHING ABOUT IT, SHAME ON THEM. SINCE HYUNDAI EXPECTED ME TO PAY $1,000 TO MOST LIKELY REINSTALL THE SAME FAULTY MOTOR AND LINKAGE, I GOT RID OF THE CAR. THE MOTOR COSTS $462 BY ITSELF.

THE HEADLIGHTS RANDOMLY TURN OFF WHEN THE HEADLIGHT SWITCH IS IN THE "ON" POSITION. THIS PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED WHEN THE CAR IS IN MOTION AT VARIOUS SPEEDS FROM RESIDENTIAL STREET TO FREEWAY, WHILE TURNING OR GOING STRAIGHT AS WELL AS WHEN IT IS STATIONARY. AFTER THE PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED, TOUCHING OR MOVING THE TURN SIGNAL STALK WILL USUALLY CAUSE THE HEADLIGHTS TO COME BACK ON. THE PROBLEM HAS NEVER OCCURRED WHEN THE SWITCH IS IN THE "AUTO" POSITION. THE PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED MANY TIMES BUT IS HARD TO REPLICATE ON DEMAND. IT IS HAPPENING WITH MORE FREQUENCY NOW. THE HYUNDAI DEALER WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT DUPLICATE IT ON DEMAND.

SINCE I BOUGHT THIS CAR WHEN I USE THE TURN SIGNALS AT NIGHT, MY HEADLIGHTS WOULD TURN OFF A SECOND OR TWO. ALSO I'VE NOTICED A SLIGHTEST MOVEMENT OR PRESSURE ON THE TURN SIGNAL STALK CAN CAUSED THE HEADLIGHTS TO FLICKER. THIS EVENTS OCCURRED RANDOMLY, AROUND FEW TIMES A WEEK, BUT STILL CAUSING A HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITION AT NIGHT WHEN THE HEADLIGHTS ARE COMPLETELY OFF FOR FEW SECONDS. THIS EVEN OCCURRED RANDOMLY WHEN THE TURN SIGNAL STALK IS USED WHETHER THE CAR IS MOVING OR PARKING. I BELIEVED THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE LIGHT ON/OFF & TURN SIGNAL STALK DESIGN THAT CAUSING THE HEADLIGHTS TO GO OFF AND/OR FLICKERING RANDOMLY WHEN USING THE TURN SIGNAL.

WHAT IS LIKELY A FAULTY TURN SIGNAL STALK CAUSES THE VEHICLE'S HEADLIGHTS TO EITHER FLICKER, SHUT OFF OR FLASH THE HIGH BEAMS REGARDLESS IF IT IS STATIONARY OR IN MOTION. IT MANIFESTS ITSELF IN VARIOUS WAYS; THE MOST RECENT BEING ON A 5 HOUR INTERSTATE TRIP. WHEN SIGNALING TO CHANGE LANES, THE HIGH BEAMS WOULD FLASH WHICH WOULD IN TURN DISTURB DRIVERS IN FRONT OF ME. OTHER TIMES, THE LIGHTS HAVE FLICKERED AND/OR TURNED OFF ENTIRELY FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME HINDERING NIGHT TIME VISIBILITY. FOR FURTHER REFERENCE, I WILL PROVIDE A LINK TO AN OWNER'S ONLINE FORUM WHICH DISCUSSES OTHER INDIVIDUAL'S PROBLEMS LIKE THIS: HTTP://GENESISOWNERS.COM/HYUNDAI-GENESIS-FORUM/SHOWTHREAD.PHP?T=12504&PAGE=4

THE HEADLIGHTS WILL FLICKER OFF IN THE "ON" MODE WHEN USING THE TURN SIGNALS, SUCH AS DURING LANE CHANGES. SOMETIMES WILL NOT TURN BACK ON UNTIL THE TURN SIGNAL STALK IS BUMPED AGAIN. CAR CAN BE STATIONARY OR MOVING. DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH HEADLIGHTS IN "AUTO" MODE.