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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.
9.0
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- No data
- Average Mileage:
- 65,850 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 4 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (4 reports)
seat belts / air bags problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
On April 14th I got into a car accident where I ended up on my drivers side in a ditch and my side impact airbags didn't deploy. I later found out that I was pregnant at the time. My husband contacted Hyundai that day to open a claim with them and ever since we have always been the person to call or email. They have been no help to us at all. My husband took pictures of the airbags when it was at the tow truck shop waiting for someone to take it to the repair shop, he also took picture of the airbags after we picked it up from the repair shop and you can clearly see where someone has tampered with the airbags. It has gotten so bad that we reported them to the BBB and our state attorney general. It has been almost two months since anyone has driven my car because We don't feel safe now knowing if the airbags will deploy if we need them too. At this point we feel like someone did check the airbags and found something wrong and decided to make it look like no one had looked at them.
- Patricia N., Bennett, US