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Brake failure. Our 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2.0T is having serious brake issues. On pressing brake pedal, it'll travel all the way down, and only pumping the brake might get vehicle to stop. My wife almost hit a vehicle at a traffic light. We've had both front and rear brakes replaced, and master cylinder has been replaced by a certified mechanic, but to no avail. Our mechanic suggested contacting Hyundai dealership, as next option would be ABS. I made an appointment with our local Hyundai Dealer in Odessa, Texas, but said they can only get me in on February 9th, and this vehicle is needed for work. The vehicle is a serious hazard to drive. I've since noticed several ABS recalls, but none for this year model. Something is seriously wrong. My wife almost rear ended a vehicle on the first incident.
Brake failure. Our 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2.0T is having serious brake issues. On pressing brake pedal, it'll travel all the way down, and only pumping the brake might get vehicle to stop. My wife almost hit a vehicle at a traffic light. We've had both front and rear brakes replaced, and master cylinder has been replaced by a certified mechanic, but no avail. Our mechanic mentioned possibility of an ABS issue, and suggested we contact Hyundai first. I made an appointment with our local Hyundai Dealer in Odessa, Texas, but said they can only get me in on February 9th, and this vehicle is needed for work. The vehicle is a serious hazard to drive.
My abs, traction control lights came on meaning the abs system is rendered inoperable. Hyundai has a campaign (949) for the same make and model as my SUV but my VIN isn-??t included in that campaign. The SUV has 70,000 miles on it.
While driving abs light, stability control light, and hill decent light came on. ABS and stability control are important safety features to prevent loss off control and potential collisions. Seems to be a common problem for hyundai.
- Waukesha, WI, USA
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The Downhill Assist system shows a light, and the vehicles brake lights do not work when it is lighting up. It only occurs sometimes, but it causes the vehicle to slow on it's own and the brakes light are not working. I feel this may cause an accident or even an injury due to an accident. I was wanting to know if you could investigate this to see if anyone else is having this possibly dangerous problem?
My vehicle had been stalling on I assign for a couple of months until one day in June 2021 it wouldn-??t start at all. I got a new battery installed and assumed that all was well. Weeks later, I was in route to visit family when my ABS, traction, and down hill break lights all came on. I pulled over and tried cutting my car off and on a few times to see if that would resolve the issue and it did not. My car also seemed to slow down a bit and struggled slightly accelerating up hills. In 2019 my turbo engine was replaced after my vehicle stopped accelerating while I was on the interstate. There is currently a recall on 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe-??s that reads: -?? Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2013-2015 Santa Fe Sport vehicles. Brake fluid may leak inside the Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) module, possibly resulting in an electrical short-?? If the ABS module short circuits, there is an increased risk of an engine compartment fire.-?? unfortunately my VIN is not included in the recall and I fear my car may catch fire any day now as a result of this failure.
My car is making a rapid beeping noise it stops every time I break I am extremely scared. I believe it has something to do with my engine. I-??ve recorded videos however the box below doesn-??t allow videos.
After starting the car, the warning lights for defective ABS, ESC and dbs (may) stay on. Sometimes after starting the car, these light go off. Hyundai had previously replaced ABS sensors on the vehicle.
ABS & brake warning lights are on. Even after replacing brakes. This is current recall but my VIN does not show up under this recall. The radio & gps works but there is no sound coming out. I was able to reset before but not anymore.
The contact owns a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. The contact stated that while operating the vehicle, the ABS and traction control warning lights would remain illuminated. Upon inspection, it was discovered that brake fluid was leaking from the brake fluid module. The cause of the failure was not determined. Hyundai of charleston located at 8485 rivers ave, North charleston, SC 29406 was notified of the failure. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 130,000.
In 2018 I became a victum of idenity theft, synthetic idenity theft, complete misuse and abuse of my ssn by finacial institions, criminlas, using my idenity against me where I was denied almost a year worth of employment because I had hackers, scammer, theives in my policies, policies I never had, I gotten the papework later in 2018 about the recall on the enging on this make and model, I was being dooped by the adminstration, when they knew this car was in 2017 was burning oil at 75,000 miles when I tried to trade it in, not only that but in 2017 all this idenity theft and synthetic idenity theft was going on which I did not understand, but I had a jerk falsify my documents, and I kept the orginals, I also had someone sending my information and my emails into the underground market, I also had signs of mail theft and fraud linkimg to synthetic idenity theft, im still fighting this jerks everytime I take this car to the dealer locally the car is worse, I swear they have been messing with it instead of resolving it, this has been ongoing for three years and I've about had with it, if it shows all the way to corporate on the title of fountain valley ca, a diff synthetic idenity then it's apparent someithing isn't right, could you live on under $2400 in a year a mother w children because of this, I'm quite frankly couldnt because I could not stop it, you can't control sythetic idenity theft it's impossible, I'm sick and iired of liars, cheats and criminals abuse my name my snn, causing me harm N distress this was going on in 2017, but 2018 these jerks would send me in circles and charge me for something I already know what's going on with it, but just to cheat there customsers as far as I'm concerned it's not funny, sick N tired of the games! its cruel and inhumane and this car is not safe to drive no remedy for nothing, it stalls in motion, doesn't drive
While driving I turned the corner going roughly 7 mph and my car just completely stalled out. I was able to get it back started but drove it home and didn't want to risk taking it out on a major highway or street.
The contact owns a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. The contact stated while driving 30 mph, the ABS warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and was informed that both ABS modules needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The contact stated that the failure recurred while the vehicle jerked forward while driving. The vehicle was not diagnosed. A dealer was not contacted. The manufacturer had not been informed of failure. The failure mileage was approximately 61,000.
ABS, ESC, brake warning lights on, incline warning light on wheel bearing speed sensors both had to be replaced codes indicated problem with wires, replaced but no solution
My car keeps turning on and off. As of recently the lights came on and off inside the car( radio, lights, ) then the steering wheel locked up but the gas was still able to be used. The ABS, steering wheel, and SUV indicators were red on the dashboard
While driving 35 mph through an intersection on a city street, the entire electrical system failed and shut off. I was unable to steer or brake, but managed to coast into a parking lot. The entire dash panel repeatedly flashed and all warning symbols appeared on dash panel. Briefly the dash panel displayed connect fuel sensor before completely shutting off. We towed vehicle to dealership and was told it appeared to be a failed alternator and starter and compromised battery cable and sensor and wouldn't be covered under warranty. We had just had the fuel line sensor replaced under recall and now this. This is after the total engine failure and that led to the engine being replaced with what we told was a factory new engine that fell under the metal fragments in oil chamber recall. We are fortunate we were unharmed during this incident. This is extremely frustrating that we have been hit with recall after recall. We were told to not be surprised if this issue also became a matter of recall.
I was on my way to a softball field for my granddaughters game and after stopping at a stop sign, I began to accelerate and my car just died. I drifted over to the roadside and tried at least 5 times to restart the vehicle to no avail. I then called aaa auto and had the girls start walking toward the ball field, much against my better judgement ( ages 10 & 12). The vehicle I had towed Wednesday to my home. I now have no transportation. We were on a small connecting road between route 40 and275.
Every 4months I have to replace my rotator and breaks on the front left side and right side and on the back left side and right side. I've had my SUV for 2 years and 7months. It started early last year(my breaks)around February the first time a friend of mine done them he is a mechanic. He put the front one's on left side and the right side. Then about 4moths later the back one's right and left sides. Then 4months later the left and right side went out (front). Then again the back breaks went I dont understand what is going on.this will be my third go around with these breaks
While driving on interstate, 65 miles hour, smell of burning coming from rear of SUV, 2013 hyundia Santa Fe sport 56K miles got out of SUV and my left rear brake was smoking very hot, took it to dealer and they looked at the left rear brake and said it was just the brake pad, repalced pad, but did not inspect all my brakes! then next day my left and right rear brakes locked up and was smoking, again took to dealership, they said nothing wrong! I was so confused, I called the Hyundai customer service they did a complaint form, it did no good for dealership did not fix or did they do a complete brake inspection, they say it would be to costly and would take to much time! and on the check in form they put mileage of 66K miles so as to look as it was out of warranty but yet the brakes lock up! I got a call from Hyundai service rep. Dave he said he wanted to make sure I as being taken care of and would see to that my brakes get fixed. But nothing ever came of it, he does not answer my calls and did not set anything up.... wow what a company. I looked up problem on the internet and yes there has been others with same problem with there brakes but nothing has ever come back from Hyundai saying that it is a problem, so I did the caliper replacement on my own and yes the calipers are shot! no good. So what good is there warranty?
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- Plant City, FL, USA