2012 HYUNDAI SONATA HYBRID Complaints

MY VEHICLE BLEW A PISTON ROD WHILE I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY ON CRUISE CONTROL DOING 2000 RPM'S. I HAVE ALWAYS KEPT UP ON THE MAINTENANCE WITH THIS CAR BUT WHEN I HAD IT TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP THEY ARE SAYING THAT IT WAS MY FAULT. THEY DO HAVE AN OPEN RECALL ON MY YEAR, MAKE, MODEL AND ENGINE SIZE BUT NOT MY VIN. I HAVE DONE MY RESEARCH ONLINE AND I HAVE FOUND OTHER CASES LIKE THIS. THE CAR ONLY HAS 69,000 MILES ON IT.

04/20/16 ' MILEAGE 71585 ' CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON WHILE DRIVING, ENGINE MADE LOUD NOISES ' HAD TOWED TO HYUNDAI ' ENGINE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED WE PURCHASED THE 2012 HYUNDAI SONANTA HYBRID PRE-OWNED VEHICLE MAY 17, 2014 WITH 17128 MILES ON IT. THIS IS THE HISTORY OF OUR 'CHECK ENGINE' LIGHTS 05/26/14 ' MILEAGE 54114 ' THE EVAP PURGE VALVE WAS LEAKING. 11/13/15 ' MILEAGE 63071 ' SAID THERE WAS A PAST CODE FOR A MISFIRE AND WAS NO LONGER ACTIVE 12/2/15 ' MILEAGE 64087 ' SPARKPLUGS HAVE CARBON BUILD UP.

A LOUD RATTLE STARTED SOUNDING IN THE STEERING COLUMN WHEN GOING OVER EVEN SMALL BUMPS. THE STEERING WHEEL HAD EXCESSIVE "PLAY" IN IT. THE DEALER REPLACED THE "STEERING COLUMN FLEXIBLE COUPLING" FREE OF CHARGE. I SAW A SIMILAR COMPLAINT ON THIS ISSUE AND FEEL THERE SHOULD BE A NOTICE (RECALL?) ABOUT THIS SINCE IT COULD BE A SERIOUS SAFETY ISSUE.

THIS IS MY SECOND 2012 SONATA HYBRID. THE FIRST ONE HAD SO MANY ENGINE ISSUES THAT HYUNDAI REPLACED IT WITH ANOTHER 2012 SONATA HYBRID. I HAVE TAKEN IT IN 5 TIMES.FOR THE SAME ISSUE. AROUND 20MPH THE CAR WILL NOT ACCELERATE THEN IT JERKS FORWARD. I ALMOSY GOT HIT ON THE HIGHWAY BECAUSE IT WONT ACCELERATE. SEVERAL WEEKS AGO THE STOP SAFELY DO NOT DRIVE HYBRID WARNING CAME ON AND THR CAR WOULDNT GO. HAD OT TOWED. THEY FOUND CODE P0717. THEY REPLACED INPUT OUTPUT SPEED SENSORS BUT THE PROBLEM CONTINUES STILL. IT ALSO JERKS WHEN IT CHANGES FROM HYBRID TO GAS. THIS CAR IS DANGEROUS. THEY CANNOT SEEM TO FIND THE PROBLEM. MILEAGE 51000-55000.

CAR HAD 113,000 MILES. MAINTENANCE WAS UP TO DATE. DRIVING FROM AZ TO LAQUINTA, CA. HEARD A KNOCKING NOISE. STOPPED, HECKED OIL, FINE, CAR WAS COOL, NO ENGINE LIGHTS ON. DROVE 4 MORE MILES, NOISE GOT REAL LOUD AND CAR SHUT DOWN ON FREEWAY. COASTED TO SIDE , ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND STATED DO NOT DRIVE. CALLED TOW TRUCK. ENGINE WAS SEIZED. DEALER STATED ENGINE WAS FROZEN AND NEEDED A NEW SHORT BLOCK COSTING $8,800 INCLUDING INSTALLATION. ASKED WHY IT FROZE, WHY NO WARNING LIGHTS, THEY SAY THEY DID NOT KNOW. LEFT CAR TO GO LOOK FOR A NEW CAR AND WAS TOLD BY SEVERAL DEALERS AND PEOPLE PRICE TOO HIGH AND OUR CAR HAD A RECALL. CHECKED ON LINE BUT IT SAID OUR CAR WAS NOT RECALLED, BUT YET WE READ THE SAME EXACT DESCRIPTION FOR RECALL 132 THAT OUR CAR HAD DONE. TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY ARE CAR SEIZED UP ((FROZE) WHEN IT WAS MAINTAINED AND ONLY HAD 113,000 MILES. SINCE WE ARE NOT REPAIRING DEALER WANTS CAR REMOVED ASAP SO WE ARE TRYING TO TRADE IT IN TOMORROW AT HONDA DEALER. WILL NOT BUY ANOTHER HYUNDAI

WHILE ON CRUISE CONTROL AT 68MPH I WAS GOING DOWN A SMALL HILL & MY CAR SUDDENLY ACCELERATED FROM 68MPH TO 82MPH AT WHICH POINT I DISENGAGED MY CRUISE CONTROL & THE CAR DECELERATED . I NOTED THE MILEAGE & TOOK THE CAR TO HYUNDAI. THEY FOUND NO ABNORMAL EVENT IN THE COMPUTER LOG.THIS BEGS THE ISSUE THAT I DID HAVE THIS EVENT OCCUR. I HAD THE COMPUTE MICROCODE UPGRADED TO THE LAST REV EARLIER THIS YEAR.

AFTER THE 6TH OR 7TH TIME THE CAR IS STARTED, THERE IS NO RADIO SOUND. I HAVE TO TURN THE CAR OFF THEN BACK ON 5 OR 6 TIMES TO GET THE RADIO TO ENGAGE. THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY, STARTING A FEW MONTHS AFTER I BOUGHT THE CAR, WHICH WAS BRAND NEW.

WHILE DRIVING IT DOWN THE STREET STARTED TO HESITATE FREQUENTLY WHILE DRIVING THEN HEARD A LOUD CLANKING SOUND WHICH CONTINUED ON WHILE DRIVING IT TO DEALER. DEALER LOOKED AT IT AND WE WERE TOLD THE MOTOR HAD GONE OUT AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED! THEY ALSO SAID WE HAD TO PAY FOR IT BECAUSE THEY SAID OUR OIL CHANGES WERE NOT APPROVED! ONCE WE GOT THE PAPER WORK BACK THEY QUOTED THEY FOUND OIL BUILD UP AND LARGE CHUNKS OF METAL THROUGHOUT THE ENGINE THAT HAS CONTAMINATED THE VALVE TRAIN. THEY HAD TO REPLACE ENGINE, CYLINDER HEAD, VALVE, VALVE SPRING, CAMSHAFTS ,GASKETS! NOW THEY ARE ISSUING A RECALL ON HYUNDAI SONATAS FOR THIS EXACT PROBLEM , BUT THEY ARE ALSO SAYING OUR CAR IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL EVEN THOUGH WHAT THEY FIXED IS THE EXACT PROBLEM THAT IS LISTED ON THE RECALL. IT TOOK THEM ALMOST 2 MONTHS TO HAVE OUR CAR IN THE SHOP BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FIND THE PARTS NEEDED TO FIX THE ENGINE!!!!

TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO I LEASED A SONATA HYBRID FROM BROADWAY AUTOMOTIVE IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN. I LEASED THE CAR TO INCLUDE 18,000 MILES PER YEAR FOR A TOTAL OF 3 YEARS, I.E. 54,000 TOTAL MILES. I WAS NEVER TOLD BY THE SALES PERSON OR THE SALES MANAGER THAT THE TIRES ON THE CAR WERE NOT MEANT FOR WISCONSIN WINTERS OR THAT THEY ONLY HAD A 30,000 MILE LIFE OR THAT THEY WERE MEANT FOR THE CALIFORNIA CLIMATE. THIS CAR HANDLES TERRIBLY IN THE WINTER MONTHS, SLIPPING WITH LITTLE TRACTION WHENEVER THERE IS SNOW ON THE ROADS. I WAS RECENTLY TOLD I HAVE TO REPLACE THE TIRES BEFORE THE END OF MY LEASE. BEING LEASED A VEHICLE BY A DEALERSHIP THAT KNEW THAT THE TIRES ON IT WERE INFERIOR FOR THE AMOUNT OF MILES I WAS GOING TO BE PUTTING ON THE VEHICLE IS JUST PLAIN DISHONEST AND IN THIS CASE DANGEROUS. THE TIRES PUT ON A VEHICLE SHOULD MATCH THE CLIMATE THE CAR IS SOLD IN. IN ADDITION, THE TIRES OF A LEASED VEHICLE SHOULD EQUAL OR EXCEED THE LEASE MILEAGE.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 HYUNDAI SONATA HYBRID. WHEN SHIFTING INTO REVERSE OR DRIVE, THE VEHICLE JERKED VIOLENTLY. IN ADDITION, WHILE DRIVING 15-20 MPH, A CHIME SOUNDED AND THE 'SAFELY STOP AND DO NOT DRIVE' WARNING MESSAGE APPEARED ON THE MESSAGE BOARD. THE FAILURE RECURRED MULTIPLE TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE OIL PUMP OR THE COMPUTER MODULE FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN A MANUFACTURERS RECALL THAT WAS RELATED TO THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 71,415.