Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.
Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.
My partner’s old hyundai genesis always “smelled” like the engine had been running “hot” despite being fully OEM with no mods. Any time she drove back from a store and parked in the garage, I could go out an 20 later and smell that hot metal engine. Never had another car that smelled like the engine was running hot/hard.
Car only lasted ten years before the timing chain slipped off the pulley and destroyed the engine block. We’ll never own another hyundai/kia product ever again that’s for sure
Timing belt gets inspected at 60k miles and I believe replaced at 90k. I would assume belt slipping off at 10 years would be due to lack of proper maintenance.
Not a belt, it was a chain. The car was regularly maintained and moderately driven (about 150k miles on the odo) - it’s a very common failure on these engines. They suck
I’m pretty sure I read the chain on genesis engines gets replaced at 120k if applicable.
Do you mean timing belt? (Chains don’t go on pulleys) You’re supposed to change those… That’s just called not maintaining your vehicle
It was a timing chain - it failed somehow and destroyed the engine. It’s a well known issue with this specific engine block which is why they stopped making them and they’re impossible to find new-in-crate engines for this car.
Which year/model or engine? Worth noting many car manufacturers have struggled with timing chain issues on at least one engine. VW struggled with it on more than one engine, BMW, I’m pretty sure there was even a Honda or Toyota engine that had a weak timing chain system at some point. If they actually stopped making the engine because of it, good on them, because other manufacturers (especially VW) definitely don’t. Other Hyundai engines have rock solid reputations. One bad experience is called an anecdote, and it’s not a good reason to discredit a brand.
It was a Theta II 2.0L FR Turbo MPI (G4KF).
But I’m not just going off my experience. My good friend owns a well known mechanics shop in town, he told us these engines are garbage and he sees it often on these early genesis coupes.
Ah yeah that one wasn’t a very good one, it got recalled for crankshaft manufacturing defects and they got sued when the problem ended up being worse than anticipated and the money they set aside wasn’t enough. The early genesis coupes were also pretty unreliable in general. Actually, I’d say Hyundai was unreliable in general in the 2000s. They were a mixed bag, the 2009 Elantra had a rock solid drivetrain but crappy electronics for example, and the theta 2 engines were plagued with failures. But pretty much anything 2015+ is rock solid, they seem to have learned from that one.
I didn’t realize you were talking about Hyundai as of like 15 years ago, though that should have been obvious since the car in your story was 10 years old
Lol yeah it was a 2013 Genesis - the last year they were able to use the wings logo before they got sued by bentley and forced to remove it
Need to show this to my wife she loves her Hyundai even though it is a piece of shit. Runs like shit everytime you fill it with gas.
My partner loved that car, I told them constantly “it’s a beautiful looking car, but it’s a hyundai” - damn I hated being right when that engine failed