2007 HYUNDAI SONATA Complaints

2007 SONATA LESS THAN 60,000 MILES BOTH SUN VISOR PASSENGER AND DRIVER SIDE WILL NOT STAY UP. THE BRACKET WITHIN THE VISOR CRACK AND IS UN FIXABLE. BOTH VISORS WILL HAVE TO BE REPLACED. THE SUN VISOR THAT WILL NOT STAY UP IS A SAFETY HAZARD AND VEHICLES VISORS SHOULD BE RECALLED. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA. THE AIR BAG LIGHT CONTINUED TO ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY AFTER NHTSA# 08V161000; AIR BAGS WAS COMPLETED IN 2008. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE DEALER NUMEROUS TIMES FOR REPAIRS AND THEY COULD NOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. THERE WERE HYUNDAI EXPERT INVESTIGATORS WHO HAVE ALSO INSPECTED THE AIR BAGS AND WERE UNABLE TO DUPLICATE OR DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AND COMPLAINTS WERE FILED; HOWEVER, THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO REFER HIM BACK TO THE DEALER. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 7,284 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 15,000.

AIRBAG LIGHT REMAINS ON IN MY 2007 SONATA. TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAID THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEATBELT CLIP NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AT A COST OF 500 EUROS (I'M A US SOLDIER STATIONED IN GERMANY AND I SHIPPED MY SONATA HERE FROM THE US). AFTER BROWSING ONLINE, THIS APPEARS TO BE AN ABNORMALLY COMMON COMPLAIN FOR SONATA OWNERS. *TR

UNCONTROLLED ACCELERATION INCIDENT REPORT INCIDENT OCCURRED AT 5:05 PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2010 VEHICLE: 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA FROM ABOUT 50 MPH, I CHANGED LANES AND ACCELERATED INTO THE LANE'S TRAFFIC BY PRESSING THE GAS PEDAL AS FAR AS IT WOULD GO. WHEN I PARTIALLY LET UP ON THE GAS PEDAL, THE CAR KEPT ACCELERATING, WITH THE ENGINE ROARING, AND I FOUGHT IT WITH THE BRAKE. I PUT IT INTO NEUTRAL AND THE ENGINE ROARED STILL MORE LOUDLY, SO I PUT IT BACK INTO DRIVE AND USED THE BRAKE MORE WHILE THE ENGINE ROARED AT ITS PREVIOUS RATE, WHICH I SAW ON THE TACHOMETER WAS ABOUT 3000 RPM. THEN AFTER AROUND FIVE SECONDS MORE I PUT IT IN NEUTRAL AGAIN; THIS TIME IT DIED DOWN TO NORMAL RPM, AND I COASTED TO A STOP. AFTER ABOUT TWENTY SECONDS I PUT IT BACK INTO DRIVE, AND IT WAS FINE. AT FIRST I WONDERED WHETHER THE ACCELERATOR HAD GOTTEN CAUGHT ON THE STORE-BOUGHT FLOOR MAT, SO WHEN I GOT HOME I EXPERIMENTED WITH IT, NEVER HAVING MOVED THE MAT FROM ITS POSITION DURING THE INCIDENT. I COULD INDEED CAUSE THE LOWER END OF THE ACCELERATOR TO GO UNDER THE FORWARD EDGE OF THE MAT, BUT THE MAT WAS NOT ATTACHED TO THE FLOOR AND WAS TOO LIGHT TO PREVENT THE ACCELERATOR FROM COMING BACK UP IMMEDIATELY. WHEN I DID THE SAME MAT EXPERIMENT ON NOVEMBER 22 IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LOCAL HYUNDAI SERVICE MANAGER, SHE AGREED THAT IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT THE MAT WAS THE PROBLEM. SHE HAD HER TECHNICIAN CHECK THE CAR ELECTRONICALLY, BUT NO CODES CAME UP TO INDICATE A PROBLEM. THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT THEN DID A 'PREMIUM FUEL SERVICE FUEL INJECTOR / THROTTLE BODY SERVICE' AND A 'COMPLETE 27 POINT INSPECTION'. *TR

EVERY TIME THE BRAKE PEDAL IS PRESSED THE CAR SEEMS TO POWER DOWN. THE HEADLIGHTS DIM, DASH LIGHTS DIM, FAN SLOWS, AND INSIDE CAR LIGHTS DIM. THIS HAPPENS EVERYTIME IT'S PRESSED. THE LIGHTS SEEM TO DIM MORE IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT A FASTER PACE AND PRESS HARDER ON THE BRAKES VERSE DRIVING SLOWLY AND EASING ONTO THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE BATTERY HAS BEEN REPLACED AND CHECKED OVER SEVERAL TIMES FOR ANY SORT OF DEFECT. ALSO THE ALTERNATOR HAS BEEN REPLACED RECENTLY AND CHECKED OVER FOR ANY DEFECTS. THESE WERE REPLACED BECAUSE THEY WERE THOUGHT TO BE THE PROBLEM BUT THE PROBLEM STILL OCCURS EVERYDAY EVERYTIME THE BRAKE PEDAL IS PRESSED. *TR

I WAS DRIVING MY 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA, AND MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED, THE PASSENGER SIDE SUN VISOR DROPPED DOWN INTO HIS FIELD OF VISION. HE TRIED TO PUT IT BACK UP, BUT IT WOULD NOT STAY IN PLACE AND CONTINUED TO FALL DOWN. I CONTACTED MY DEALER AND FOUND OUT THEY HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN MANY TIMES WITH BOTH THE PASSENGER SIDE AND DRIVER SIDE SUN VISORS. THIS COULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DRIVER SIDE VISOR BREAKS. HAVING IT DROP INTO THE DRIVER'S FIELD OF VISION WHILE HE IS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD COULD EASILY CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. THE DEALER SAID THAT THE DRIVER SIDE VISOR COULD FAIL AT ANY TIME, BUT THEY WOULD NOT REPLACE IT UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT IT DID FAIL. MY PASSENGER SIDE VISOR WAS REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY, BUT I STILL WANTED TO BRING ATTENTION TO THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PROBLEM WITH THE VISORS IN THE HYUNDAI SONATA.

MY 2007 SONATA HAS A SERIOUS SAFETY PROBLEM. THE SUN VISORS WILL NOT STAY UP AND FALL AT RANDOM TIMES. I HAVE VELCRO ATTACHED AND IT STILL WILL NOT STAY UP. CAUSES A LARGE PROBLEM AS YOU ARE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET AND IT FALLS IN YOUR FACE. *TR

REAR BRAKE PADS ARE PREMATURELY WORN OUT ON 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA GLS COMPARED TO FRONT BRAKE PADS. REAR BRAKE PADS ESSENTIALLY WENT TO 99% WORN OUT IN MATTER OF 4 MONTHS WHILE FRONT BRAKE PADS WERE MINIMALLY WORN DURING THIS TIME PERIOD AND ARE STILL AROUND 50%. INTERNET DISCUSSION BOARDS ARE FULL OF THIS TYPE OF EVENTS WITH THIS CAR MODEL'S REAR BRAKE SYSTEM SUDDENLY WEARING OUT BRAKE PADS. THIS IS A HUGE SAFETY ISSUE THAT HYUNDAI REFUSES TO DO A RECALL ON. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA. THE CONTACT HEARD A NOISE AT THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WHILE BRAKING, BUT THOUGHT IT WOULD BE TEMPORARY BECAUSE THE VEHICLE WAS NEW. HOWEVER ON OCTOBER 6, 2010, HE HEARD A LOUD METAL GRINDING NOISE. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN INSPECTED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER HAD NOT BEEN NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 10,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 23,000.

DRIVER-SIDE SUNVISOR DROOPS DOWN BLOCKING PARTIALLY THE FILED OF VIEW WHILE DRIVING. THE SUNVISOR DOES NOT STAY ITS UPRIGHT POSITION, WHICH IT SHOULD WHEN NOT IN USE. *TR