CarComplaints.com Notes: We're not used to seeing any major problems with Hyundai, which makes the early signs of trouble with the 2013 Elantra very surprising, in a bad way.
Early trends show problems with the steering wandering / pulling to one side along with premature tire wear. Elantra owners have tried sensor adjustments, wheel alignments, even replacing axles, most with no luck. Hyundai has made vehicle buybacks through arbitration, but that rarely works out well financially for owners in the end.
Also there is a pattern of complaints about the 2013 Elantra brakes grinding at very low mileage. It seems there was a bad batch of OEM pads & rotors, but so far Hyundai is not doing a recall. Instead Hyundai issued a TSB & dealers have been replacing pads & rotors on a per-complaint basis.
The final straw is that for several years in a row, Elantra owners report significantly lower gas mileage than the EPA estimates, & there's a small trend of engine problems.
Seems to be a problem with the spring mechanism that keeps the pull-down mirror on the driver's side up most of the time. It must be too strong for the materials or something because the pieces are now broken and the whole thing hangs down a bit from the ceiling when it is supposed to be fully snapped up. I don't remember anything happening to cause it - it was just suddenly broken one day. I have to force the pieces back together to realign them and keep the whole thing down and out so i can even see out the windshield, because anytime i try to put it up all the way it re-breaks and blocks my view. Cheap materials I guess. Not sure how much it costs to fix because at this point it's not worth paying anything, but the car is only a couple years old so this seems too soon for it to be falling apart.
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Seems to be a problem with the spring mechanism that keeps the pull-down mirror on the driver's side up most of the time. It must be too strong for the materials or something because the pieces are now broken and the whole thing hangs down a bit from the ceiling when it is supposed to be fully snapped up. I don't remember anything happening to cause it - it was just suddenly broken one day. I have to force the pieces back together to realign them and keep the whole thing down and out so i can even see out the windshield, because anytime i try to put it up all the way it re-breaks and blocks my view. Cheap materials I guess. Not sure how much it costs to fix because at this point it's not worth paying anything, but the car is only a couple years old so this seems too soon for it to be falling apart.
- luvs2sing5, Redmond, WA, US