Hi,
We have had had our Santa Fe for a year, done 38000 km and love it.
A few weeks ago we started experiencing a pretty major problem with it though so i just wanted to know if anyone here has experienced or knows about the same problem.
The car will start up and drive around town fine but as soon as the engine is under load at highway speeds or driving up a hill it loses all power.
In Automatic when this happens the gear will drop back to third. You can switch it over to manual mode and slowly accelerate back up to around 80-90km/hour with your foot flat to the floor but the rpm don't get above around 2000 to 3000.
If you stop and turn the engine off for a minute or so, when you start again everything will appear to back to normal but after another minute or two the problem will be back.
The engine malfunction light comes on and sometime it's flashing but at other times it's constant.
The car's been in at our local Hyundai dealer for a week but at this stage they still can't quite figure out the exact cause of the problem.
The code they pulled out suggested it was the exhaust particulate filter (apparently quite an expensive part) so they replaced that but it didn't fix it.
They've also replaced the fuel filter and some temperature sensors that are part of the particulate filter apparently but still no joy.
I'm just glad Hyundai offer a 5 year/unlimited km warranty in Australia because it looks like it could be quite an expensive fix at this stage.
Anyone have any ideas?
We have had had our Santa Fe for a year, done 38000 km and love it.
A few weeks ago we started experiencing a pretty major problem with it though so i just wanted to know if anyone here has experienced or knows about the same problem.
The car will start up and drive around town fine but as soon as the engine is under load at highway speeds or driving up a hill it loses all power.
In Automatic when this happens the gear will drop back to third. You can switch it over to manual mode and slowly accelerate back up to around 80-90km/hour with your foot flat to the floor but the rpm don't get above around 2000 to 3000.
If you stop and turn the engine off for a minute or so, when you start again everything will appear to back to normal but after another minute or two the problem will be back.
The engine malfunction light comes on and sometime it's flashing but at other times it's constant.
The car's been in at our local Hyundai dealer for a week but at this stage they still can't quite figure out the exact cause of the problem.
The code they pulled out suggested it was the exhaust particulate filter (apparently quite an expensive part) so they replaced that but it didn't fix it.
They've also replaced the fuel filter and some temperature sensors that are part of the particulate filter apparently but still no joy.
I'm just glad Hyundai offer a 5 year/unlimited km warranty in Australia because it looks like it could be quite an expensive fix at this stage.
Anyone have any ideas?
