2014 HYUNDAI VELOSTER Complaints

POWER STEERING COUPLER IS DEFECTIVE AND MAKES A RATTLING SOUND WHEN VEHICLE IS IN MOTION. SEVERAL OTHER MODELS HAVE BEEN ISSUED RECALLS ON THIS PART BUT NOT THE VELOSTER. I'M WONDERING HOW MUCH SAFER IT IS TO DRIVE VELOSTER THIS WAY AS OPPOSED THOSE HUYNDAI MODELS THAT WERE RECALLED.

STEERING WHEEL WHEN STATIONARY MAKES A CLUNKING NOISE WHEN TURNING LEFT TO RIGHT AT THE STEERING COLUMN. WHEN DRIVING IT FEELS LOOSE AND ALSO MAKES A CLUNKING NOISE WHEN STEERING ON THE ROAD, WHEN REACHING HIGHER SPEEDS ON THE HIGHWAY IT WOULD VIBRATE THE STEERING WHEEL. I STOPED BY A LOCAL AUTO MECHANIC AND HE TOLD ME THAT HYUNDAI'S HAVE THIS PROBLEM AND I SHOULD TAKE BACK TO DEALERSHIP TO HAVE FIXED. HE TOLD ME IT WAS THE STEERING COUPLER. I PURCHASE 2 HYUNDAI VELOSTER IN 2014 AND BOTH VEHICLES HAVE NOW HAD THIS REPLACED BOTH UNDER 35,000 MILES. BUT THIS ONE WAS OUT OF WARRANTY WHEN IT HAPPENED BUT WAS UNDER 35,000 MILES. THIS SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING AT THIS MILAGE.

TAKATA INFLATORS - FRONT AND READ DOOR LATCH MALFUNCTIONS, IE.: FRONT AND REAR DOOR OUTSIDE AND INSIDE LATCHES NOT RELEASING (OPENING) MANUALLY AND/OR ELECTRONICALLY WITH FOB RESULTING IN POTENTIAL SAFETY ISSUES. THE AUTO WAS PARKED AND DOORS LOCKED USING FOB. WHEN I RETURNED TO CAR, I PRESSED THE UNLOCK BUTTON ON FOB, HEARD THE CLICKING SOUND THE FOB MAKES WHEN THE UNLOCK BUTTON IS PRESSED; WE PULLED THE DRIVER SIDE AND BOTH PASSENGER DOOR LATCHES, THE DRIVER AND REAR PASSENGER DOORS DID NOT OPEN. MY GUEST TRIED TO ENTER THE REAR PASSENGER DOOR BY PULLING THE INSIDE LATCH, IT STILL DIDN'T OPEN. NEXT I PULLED THE DRIVERS SIDE DOOR LATCH FROM THE INSIDE, IT OPENED. I LEANED INTO THE CAR, TURNED ON THE ENGINE TO ROLL DOWN THE DRIVERS WINDOW TO ENTER THE CAR. I'VE TRIED REPLACING FUSE AND FOB BATTERIES, RESETTING THE LOCK/UNLOCK CODE AND NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK. CRAWLING OVER SEATS, ROLLING DOWN WINDOWS THE RUNNING AROUND CAR, AND LEAVING WINDOW OPEN ARE SAFETY HAZARDS. TWO NON-WORKING DOORS ARE SAFETY ISSUES AND NEGATIVELY IMPACTS MY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.

SOLD A 2014 HYUNDAI VELOSTER WITH GRINDING BRAKES, ACCELERATION PROBLEM, AND VIBRATION ISSUES. I WAS TOLD EVERYTHING WOULD BE FIXED. I RETURNED THE CAR WITHIN 24HRS. THE CAR VIBRATES DANGEROUSLY AT 50MPH AND ABOVE. THE CAR HESITATES WHEN TAKING OFF, TRYING TO PASS, OR GET ON FREEWAY. THIS IS ALSO DANGEROUS BECAUSE CARS ALREADY GOING 70MPH COULD OF HIT US WHILE TRYING TO GET ON FREEWAY. SOMETIMES WHILE GIVING THE CAR GAS IT WOULD JUST REV UP THE RPMS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING. THIS ALSO SCARED ME INTO RETURNING THE CAR. I WENT BACK TO TEST DRIVE THE CAR TO SEE IF PROBLEMS WERE FIXED, AND THE MI GENTE AUTO DEALERSHIP TOLD ME THEY JUST REPLACED TIRES AND THAT FIXED THE PROBLEM. I TOLD THEM THEY CAN KEEP THE CAR, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO KEEP COMING BACK FOR SAME ISSUES. I WAS THREATENED WITH REPOSSESSION WILL BE ADDED TO MY CREDIT.

MY CAR WAS STATIONARY OVER NIGHT AND MY SUNROOF BUSTED. HAD GOTTEN HOME THE NIGHT BEFORE AFTER DRIVING FOR 6 HOURS AND PARKED THE CAR. I HAD BEEN NEAR IT SEVERAL TIMES AND NEVER SAW A CRACK OR ANYTHING. WENT TO GET IN THIS MORNING AND IT HAS GLASS EVERYWHERE.

ENGINE WAS MAKING INCREASED NOISE AND LOSS OF GAS MILEAGE. DEALER ASSURED VEHICLE CHECKED OUT OK. LESS THAN 2,000 MILES LATER AT 101,000 ENGINE 'THREW A ROD' WHILE BEING DRIVEN ON NEIGHBORHOOD ROADS. HYUNDAI REFUSES TO COVER RECONDITIONED ENGINE REPLACEMENT. OFFERED LESS THAN HALF OF COST.

THE ACA CONTROLLER KNOB GETS EXTREMELY HOT , THE INSIDE HAS MELTED AND NO LONGER WORKS SO THE AC AND OR HEAT DOES NOT BLOW OUT OF THE VENTS,

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 HYUNDAI VELOSTER. WHILE DRIVING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE CHECK ENGINE INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER (JIM BURKE HYUNDAI, 1424 5TH AVE N, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35203) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE OXYGEN SENSOR FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 52,000.

PANORAMIC SUNROOF BLOWS UP WHILE DRIVING IN HIGHWAY, THERES NO SIGNS OF ROCK HITTING IT.

THE TAILGATE RELEASE PAD HAS TO BE PRESSED VERY HARD TO GET THE LATCH TO UNLOCK. WE BEGAN NOTICING THIS ISSUE AT CHRISTMAS WHEN WE WERE LOADING THE TRUNK FOR A TRIP HOME AND IT HAS PROGRESSIVELY GOTTEN WORSE. THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN WE THOUGHT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET THE TRUNK OPEN AT ALL WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE THE TRUNK COMPLETELY USELESS. I TOOK IT, TODAY, TO MY LOCAL HYUNDAI DEALERSHIP WHERE THEY CONFIRMED THAT THE PAD HAD COLLAPSED INSIDE OF THE SWITCH AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. DUE TO THE PART NUMBER FOR THE REPLACEMENT SWITCH/PAD INDICATING THAT IT WAS A RECALLED PART THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT DID A SEARCH FOR A RECALL OR CAMPAIGN ON THIS PART THEY DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS A CAMPAIGN FOR THIS PART ON VELOSTERS WITH A MODEL YEAR OF 2015 AND 2016. I WANT TO REPORT THIS NOW ON THE 2014 MODEL YEAR VELOSTER TURBO AS THIS WAS AN EXPENSIVE REPLACEMENT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN COVERED UNDER THE SAME CAMPAIGN AS THE 2015 AND 2016 MODELS AS IT IS THE SAME EXACT ISSUE ACCORDING TO THE HYUNDAI SERVICE DEPARTMENT.