The new 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe is the bomb

nicholas said:
90% of the people on here have never owned a Hyundai or kia product. They just regurgitate what some others or videos say.
We have owned numerous Korean cars, from new, and all of them have been great.
Just take care of them, like any other car.

Many of these engine issues are from owner neglect. They are usually the cheapest on the market and many owners let maintenance slide.
Because they are trying to save a buck.

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I have owned seven Hyundai/ Kia autos/suv's i agree the pre gdi engines were very good the gdi engine failure rate is simply unrealistic, in this day and age over ten years of this junk and they still can come up with a fix ! neighbour across the road 117000 kilometers on a 2017 tucson engine toast.
Neighbour beside me 2022 Sorrento 33000 kilo meters blew the engine and these are well maintained cars driven buy retired couples so hardly neglected.
 
nicholas said:
90% of the people on here have never owned a Hyundai or kia product. They just regurgitate what some others or videos say.
We have owned numerous Korean cars, from new, and all of them have been great.
Just take care of them, like any other car.

Many of these engine issues are from owner neglect. They are usually the cheapest on the market and many owners let maintenance slide.
Because they are trying to save a buck.

Fwiw
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Welcome to the average Mopar/VW owner experience on internet forums.
 
We've had four or five Hyundai/Kia cars over the last 15 years and have had zero issues with any of them. Now to get more specific to the Santa Fes, I currently have a '23 with the 2.5 turbo. I've had it for one full year and have 13,000 miles on it. Granted that is not a lot, but so far no issues. The car is comfortable, quiet, and the 311 lb./ft. of torque gets the job done. The '24s look better in person than in the pictures, but they are bigger than I need. I'm quite happy with my 2023.
 
Invisible said:
I brand new 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD can be had for $40K, maybe less, after negotiations. The "L" 7-seat version is maybe $1K more. It's got a 3.6L Pentastar, and a bullet-proof ZF 8HP50 transmission, plus the diffs are ZF, and the transfer case is a Borg-Warner unit. The only thing to do is swap out the oil cooler for an aluminum one when you get it, and it will do circles around any Hyundai/KIA product, for less money.

At least it looks decent and it can tow/haul without any issues, or with the risk of the engine/transmission grenading themselves apart.

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I drove a '96 Grand dang into the ground, then the person I gave it to drove it another 50k (about 300k all in all)
I bought it because I really liked the looks. Now the Grand (and the Durango) both look like minivans. Really unappealing minivans. With constipation.

It is miles above the Hyundai/Kia with regards to reliability (even though I'm no Mopar fan or whatever they call Mopar now), but still, those lines are just...... not my cup of tea. I'll give the aesthetic points to the Hyunias.

I miss good looking Jeeps.
 
mr_boring said:
I drove a '96 Grand dang into the ground, then the person I gave it to drove it another 50k (about 300k all in all)
I bought it because I really liked the looks. Now the Grand (and the Durango) both look like minivans. Really unappealing minivans. With constipation.

It is miles above the Hyundai/Kia with regards to reliability (even though I'm no Mopar fan or whatever they call Mopar now), but still, those lines are just...... not my cup of tea. I'll give the aesthetic points to the Hyunias.

I miss good looking Jeeps.
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The WK2 and ZJ were beautiful.
 
dishdude said:
The WK2 and ZJ were beautiful.
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I agree. The ZJ was years ahead of it's time, and the 4.0 was maybe the best engine ever produced.

And comfortable...... yassssss

I took it places in 2wd that many others in 4wd wouldn't go. I buried it to the frame once and somehow drove it out under its own power. That did require a shift into 4 lol
 
they look nice BUT like many small pickups, TOO many doors + TOO little box!!!
 
Looks nice however I have known quite a few folks absolutely burned by that company who really did not have a lot money . Serious engine flaws .
 
I've seen these here and there on the road and thought they looked pretty good.
How well they'll do mechanically over time is another matter.
Not something I'd buy in any event.
 
I think it looks hideous.. its so bad its almost good again.
The X brake lights .... ugh
 
I keep hearing Huyndai and Kia having mechanical quality issues but the korean car owners I know always have high miles on theirs and with minimal problems. We’re talking way past 250k miles on original engine and transmission under normal oil change and not that much atf changes.
 
Wife has a 22 Santa Fe lease we were going to buy it since it fits our family well and returns good gas mileage.. well that was until it starting having electrical issues with it. start stop sometimes won't restart, passenger airbag off when passenger is sitting in it, blindspot beeping randomly when car is off and parked. Buttons on door handles not responding. Dealer is useless.


Won't be buying it.
 
We've owned various of the "troubled" engined H/K products since 2009 up to our current (no engine issues) Palisade. One Sonata GLS up to 188k miles and the wife's Santa Fe 2.0T up to 240k mi. The only issue we had with any of the 8 was my last Sonata...and it wasn't a fatal flaw. So 7 of the 8 were/are flawless.

I will have zero issue buying another, zero.
 
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