My Grand Santa Fe, which has been dead solid reliable since new, broke yesterday.
On the way home from work, I noticed the rear wheels louder than normal, like a wheel out of balance or bad bearing. When I came to a stop, it sounded like stuck drum brakes or something holding the rear wheels. I got out to check for a flat tire or cardboard etc caught under the car, found nothing.
The car wouldn't creep forward in traffic unless I gave it throttle, so I knew something was wrong.
This morning I took it in to the import Hyundai dealer and the service writer immediately asked me if I wanted a 35K KM service. I told her the problem , then she tried to sell me a brake job and wheel balance.
Finally the mechanic came out and we walk out to the car, where its started puking diff fluid onto the ground. He asks me to drive it, and we get in, I back up, and he says "release the parking brake"...its off already. Show him the car doesn't creep forward, then he says to turn the wheel all the way to the lock and try to drive. The rear wheels are completely locked. I accelerate and the rear wheels skid along as we drive in a circle.
They keep the car, and called me about an hour ago, the AWD Viscous Coupling has apparently failed, and there's not one in China since this car is made in Korea. So it will be "at least a week" before the part gets in.
Looks this this apparently...
I picked up the car Feb 2015. Its only let me down one other time, when the fuel gelled when it was 9 degrees outside.
Been really satisfied with the car otherwise.
On the way home from work, I noticed the rear wheels louder than normal, like a wheel out of balance or bad bearing. When I came to a stop, it sounded like stuck drum brakes or something holding the rear wheels. I got out to check for a flat tire or cardboard etc caught under the car, found nothing.
The car wouldn't creep forward in traffic unless I gave it throttle, so I knew something was wrong.
This morning I took it in to the import Hyundai dealer and the service writer immediately asked me if I wanted a 35K KM service. I told her the problem , then she tried to sell me a brake job and wheel balance.
Finally the mechanic came out and we walk out to the car, where its started puking diff fluid onto the ground. He asks me to drive it, and we get in, I back up, and he says "release the parking brake"...its off already. Show him the car doesn't creep forward, then he says to turn the wheel all the way to the lock and try to drive. The rear wheels are completely locked. I accelerate and the rear wheels skid along as we drive in a circle.
They keep the car, and called me about an hour ago, the AWD Viscous Coupling has apparently failed, and there's not one in China since this car is made in Korea. So it will be "at least a week" before the part gets in.
Looks this this apparently...
I picked up the car Feb 2015. Its only let me down one other time, when the fuel gelled when it was 9 degrees outside.
Been really satisfied with the car otherwise.
