Drove up to the Texas/OK border on Friday and picked up a 11 Hyundai Sonata GLS. 30k miles and absolutely beautiful. Looks like a brand new car, even the suspension components have original stickers on them from the factory. Zero corrosion, nothing. Dealer put new toyo tires on it, with 640 tread rating. Drove it home 4 hours, and got 28mpg driving 80-90mph. Very impressive.
Traded in a Rav4 with 100k miles on it, and got a pretty good deal.
This is my first car with Direct Injection. I have been doing a bit of reading on the subject. Some owners have put catch cans on the PCV to get the sludge before it hits the intake. I read a lab study that the deposits occur from lubrication, not PCV, and not fuel.
Hyundai recommends a 3750 mile oil change using 5w20, 5w30 or 10w30. I am going to run Chevron Supreme 10w30 with OEM filters every 3750 miles. It's hot in Texas most of the year anyways.
Weird to me running 10w30 in a late model car, but this engine is susceptible to fuel dillusion isues, so I will keep fresh oil in it.
I feel dumb, I am having trouble using the dipstick in this car. Can not get a good read when hot, I will try when stone cold and see if I can get a read on it. Want to get the dealer bulk oil out of there, with the unknown jobber filter, as hyundai has had issues with non oem filters.
Color is pearl tricoat, and I have wanted a pearl car forever, so finally got one. Can not believe how nice the paint is on a reasonably economy car. Has blue and silver metallic in the paint. Paint Has a few chips, I have ordered the Dr. Chip chip system to fix the paint chips.
Got the car home, the paint needed zero correction, so I just hand waxed it with nufinish. Car will stay very nice, I park in the garage at home, and a garage at work. Car will rarely even get wet.
Traded in a Rav4 with 100k miles on it, and got a pretty good deal.
This is my first car with Direct Injection. I have been doing a bit of reading on the subject. Some owners have put catch cans on the PCV to get the sludge before it hits the intake. I read a lab study that the deposits occur from lubrication, not PCV, and not fuel.
Hyundai recommends a 3750 mile oil change using 5w20, 5w30 or 10w30. I am going to run Chevron Supreme 10w30 with OEM filters every 3750 miles. It's hot in Texas most of the year anyways.
Weird to me running 10w30 in a late model car, but this engine is susceptible to fuel dillusion isues, so I will keep fresh oil in it.
I feel dumb, I am having trouble using the dipstick in this car. Can not get a good read when hot, I will try when stone cold and see if I can get a read on it. Want to get the dealer bulk oil out of there, with the unknown jobber filter, as hyundai has had issues with non oem filters.
Color is pearl tricoat, and I have wanted a pearl car forever, so finally got one. Can not believe how nice the paint is on a reasonably economy car. Has blue and silver metallic in the paint. Paint Has a few chips, I have ordered the Dr. Chip chip system to fix the paint chips.
Got the car home, the paint needed zero correction, so I just hand waxed it with nufinish. Car will stay very nice, I park in the garage at home, and a garage at work. Car will rarely even get wet.
