It's one of the few infuriating things about this car. Also, when you park it shuts down before you shift to park, but then starts up again when you put it in park, just so you can shut it off again when you get out...lol!

 

Exactly!
with the push to start button I find the park button to be obsolete.
Just hit the power button instead of park.

 

All the manual transmission cars I owned, the reverse start required better clutch skill, very evident on an incline. It might be the same on DCT?

That is the reason I switch off ISG during parking maneuver, those ON/OFF cycles got to be bad for the starter lol. The symptom might go away eventually if the new ISG is as good as the 2019/2020!

 

All the manual transmission cars I owned, the reverse start required better clutch skill, very evident on an incline. It might be the same on DCT?

Yeah that can be a possibility, but I'm like 95% sure non-turbo sante fe's such as mine have traditional automatic transmissions. Heck, when I was reversing it was a slight downslope so there shouldn't be any load on the engine!

Just gotta get into the groove of disabling ISG before reversing I guess.

 

It is one of the few things i don't like about this car. Hyundai could have easily given a disable option for ISG so that we don't have to do it manually each we turn off and turn on the car.

 

I've owned several cars with the auto start-stop feature, and you had to manually shut it off every time on all of them. I think the automakers are required to default to this feature being on because the EPA ratings are determined with the feature enabled.

 

I don't think they can add an easy disable, but I do think the programming could maybe be a bit better. Same with the manual shift mode returning to automatic by itself and not allowing starts from a stop in manual mode. It's those little things.

 

Same with the manual shift mode returning to automatic by itself and not allowing starts from a stop in manual mode. It's those little things.

Huh? The 2019/2020 Santa Fe’s starts off just fine in manual mode. And just a tap on the paddle in the 2021/2022 models will put you in manual mode. Launch in first and use the paddle to shift to second.

But if you’re questioning why you can’t start in 2nd, 3rd or higher gears, well, just think of it as “idiot proofing.”

OP, are you describing the ISG stopping the engine when you come to a full stop, before you do a parallel parking maneuver, as “stalling?”

 

2019 non-turbo, I've never had it stall out, but a few times I've let off the brake just as ISG was activating, and it stumbled a bit and gave me a very angry beeeeeep noise.

I usually just shut off ISG right after starting the car now.

 

That real hurts the mechanical enthusiast!