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.
Bought this car brand new with 2 miles on the ODO to replace an aging ford Taurus, and has been... Ok. Main Issue with this chunk of sh*t is the tires. Car has 23K on it now, and the tires are approaching the wear indicators already. My wife drives this car, does not beat on it and is mostly used on the back roads to her Job. we've had to fill the tires on her car daily since the first of July. Money is real tight so we have just been dealing with it. I have taken the tire off and inspected it inch by inch to find no puncture from anything. Starting to suspect the rim is defective, since this has been an ongoing issue since the week we bought it back in April 2014. But it needed 5psi here, 10 psi there- every week on random wheels. Then it suddenly went away. No issue for about 8 months. now its back and one tire is loosing 10-20 psi every 5 hours. I fill it up in the morning, then she fills it back up at lunch... I've contacted the dealer, no help since we drove off the lot. Taken the car to two mechanics that couldn't find a leak. The OEM Kohumo Optimo 205/55/16 tires that came with this thing are sh*t. Road noise, excessive tread wear, poor wet traction... I'm replacing the tire today. Had enough of this crap, its dangerous and annoying to constantly worry if the tire will go flat.
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Bought this car brand new with 2 miles on the ODO to replace an aging ford Taurus, and has been... Ok. Main Issue with this chunk of sh*t is the tires. Car has 23K on it now, and the tires are approaching the wear indicators already. My wife drives this car, does not beat on it and is mostly used on the back roads to her Job. we've had to fill the tires on her car daily since the first of July. Money is real tight so we have just been dealing with it. I have taken the tire off and inspected it inch by inch to find no puncture from anything. Starting to suspect the rim is defective, since this has been an ongoing issue since the week we bought it back in April 2014. But it needed 5psi here, 10 psi there- every week on random wheels. Then it suddenly went away. No issue for about 8 months. now its back and one tire is loosing 10-20 psi every 5 hours. I fill it up in the morning, then she fills it back up at lunch... I've contacted the dealer, no help since we drove off the lot. Taken the car to two mechanics that couldn't find a leak. The OEM Kohumo Optimo 205/55/16 tires that came with this thing are sh*t. Road noise, excessive tread wear, poor wet traction... I'm replacing the tire today. Had enough of this crap, its dangerous and annoying to constantly worry if the tire will go flat.
- Wayne B., Stafford, TX, US