new 2007 SE V6 Hyundai Sonata (Premium Package)

[bestcardeals77]

Please help clear up some questions I have with a new 2007 SE V6 Hyundai Sonata (Premium Package) that was bought a week ago (Feb 10th 2007) and only had 5 miles on the odometer at the time of purchase.

1) The driver’s cloth power seat has a big opening in the cloth on the left side that I can put my whole hand in and pull out the wires that go to the power seat. I am told by the salesperson at the dealership that this is the design of the Sonata even though we could not find any other Hyundai cloth power seat that had this opening. Is it normal for the Sonata cloth power seats to have a six inch separation in it’s cloth that you can tear out the foam and wires?

2) The car had a gallon of gas in the tank when I drove it off the sales lot. I drove two blocks away and put 14 gallons of gas in the tank (the most the gas tank would take). I was pulling away from the gas station and this awful noise was coming from the back of the new Sonata. I would lightly step on the brakes and you could heard loud crushing noises and then sloshing noises. I drove the car for another 25 miles and it was clear the crushing noises were the back brakes and sloshing noise was the full tank of gas moving back and forth/ back and forth/ back and forth. I could also hear all the plastic pieces of the dashboard and doors shifting back and forth in the front interior cabin while driving. The salesperson told me again that all these noises were normal, but I don’t remember hearing these noises while test driving three other Sonatas (of course the other test cars didn’t have a full tank of gas). Is it normal for this car to be SO noisy? When the gas level got down below half full most of the noises were what I was use to in my old car, but after filling up the gas tank again the loud noise level came back.

3) How many gallons are still in the gas tank when the gas gauge needle is on “E”? The car has been on “E” twice, but 14 gallons of gas has been the most the car will take at this level.

4) The second day driving the car it became apparent the front end alignment was not right. The car drifts to the left 70 percent of the time and about 20 percent of time will change and start pulling to the right for no clear reason. Only 10 percent of the time I am driving straight ahead without needing to correct the steering wheel. I am consistently correcting the steering wheel so the car doesn’t drift from side to side. I never had to do this with my other cars, so is this something unique with the Sonata that I have to get use to?

5) On the third day I had to use the rear defroster for the first time and discovered that the top 6 defroster lines didn’t work. The service man at the dealership asked me if I had cut the lines because the defroster lines were commonly damaged by owners trying to wash their car’s back inside window. I was never near the car’s back inside window so I didn’t damage the defroster lines, BUT is it possible to damage this car’s defroster lines by washing the window? For future reference, how do you wash the inside back window?

6) Would someone know how to turn the headlights on WITHOUT turning the ignition key (or needing to run the engine)? I never check this while test driving the Hyundai, but discovered it a few days later that I could not turn my headlights on unless the ignition key was turned to “On”. All my prior car’s head lights could be turned on without involving the ignition. I talked to 25 other people who own non Hyundai cars and all these people said their car’s headlights can be turned on without the ignition key. Maybe I am missing something because it doesn’t make sense why a car manufacturer would design a car that made the engine idle when the owner wanted to use the illumination of the headlights.

7) The engine is very noisy and rough running for a car that only has now 250 miles, is this also normal?

[tak82v2]

probably a preproduction car

regardless..the warranty should take care of it.

hyundai's quality seems to be deteoriating a bit lately.

tucosn owner's have nightmare's with engine and electrical and now this..

i think the absence of chung-mong koo is really affecting hyundia's quality control..he was notorious for quality..and even yanked a random car off an assembly line and torn up to inspect the quality.

[bestcardeals77]

[quote=tak82v2]probably a preproduction car
regardless..the warranty should take care of it.

Hey,

What does that mean? Preproduction car? The dealership is telling me this is normal for the car. Since I have never owned a Hyundai, is this normal?

[IN4PAYBACK]

it is not normal.....

here is a list of things you need to do.

1 go to the store.
2 buy alchohol
3 drink enough to become brazen, but not impared
4 stew with your family/friends
5 get very very very livid
6 go to the dealership
7 explain all the problems to them, and tell them you went to another dealer who told them they were wrong
8 cuss strategically
9 ramble on and DON'T DROP IT AND DON'T LET THEM SEND YOU OFF WITHOUT FIXING ANY OF IT!!!
10 if that doesn't work, call the police, make a report of the car being bad and them not making an effort to correct the problem. make sure a report is made, then sue them or exchange the car or go to corporate.

it is soooo incredibly difficult to cut those wires without a razor blade. there should be enough sound insullation, and including the seats and trunk separation, that you should never hear the tank. i hear it now on my tiburon cause i did a weight reduction. no holes should ever be in your seat...ever....

[Jed118]

Unless you clean your rear windshield with a RAZOR you should be fine. Even if you used abrasives, it would take years for them to erode the copper paths.

As for the lights, my 87 Pony needs to have the keys on "ON" for the headlamps to work, whereas my 84 does not. It is a simple matter of rewiring the relay trigger from the IGN "ON" position (or any circuit that works in "ON") to one that works at all times (horn, brake lamps, etc)

Still, My rear defroster doesn't work AT ALL in my 87. It's quite annoying since it is my winter car. In any case, I am happy to report no such failures in my car!

**** bring it to teh dealer and demand they fix these things.

[wilburisthecoolest]

About the getting drunk thing.. as stupid and sarcastic as that sounds.. Im almost postive that youll get everything fixed. Some dealers are asswipes, while others are very pleasant. Shop around, and see which dealer will help you. Make sure you tell them that you bought the car from so and so dealer and that they wont help you.

Talk just loud enough for others around you to hear, the louder you are, the more likely you are to get fixed quickly.

Dealers can order new seats, and rear windows, and ALL and i mean ALL of what your talking about IS covered by warenty. If the dealer will not help you, you can report them to police, but more importantly, report them to Hyundai and they can loose their license to sell cars. And threaten them with this. Youll get everything fixed.


What he means by preproduction, is that your car was a rare test vehicle that Hyundai used to test things on. Therefore, it was made *before* the acctual model was realised to the public. So it might be a few years old, and it sat inside a factory on a test bed while they shook it to pieces to see which parts of the interor would fall apart first. Yeah, no shyt.

And for furter referance to the headlights, my 97 the lights turn off when i turn off the key. My grandmas XG 350 do the same, but the other lights, fog lights and parking lights, stay on. Thats normal. So if you leave the lights on and walk away it wont drain your battery. Safety thing i guess.

[asiman1]

it sounds like you've got a lemon and you should demand to either get all those bugs fixed or a new one. after all dotn they give you 30 days to decide... anyway

the lights, on my accent the key has to be on for the lights to come on. i think its to save power on the battterrrryyyyy