Used 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Consumer Reviews

beware if buying for your kids to ride in

I first bought a Hyundai sonata 2011 which was fair in function considering the cost so I decided to change to the Santa Fe 2.0T I bought this Santa Fe for my wife and our two girls then 4 and 5yrs old. First problem was when one of the rare seat beat got locked up in my daughter's car seat as she tried to unlock the seal belt so she could get out of the car while we were in the garage no matter how hard we tried we could not get it released and in fact it got more tightened across her belly to the point she started foaming. Eventually we had to do the inevitable, cut the seat belt to free our daughter. When we took it to the dealership ,they played it down until I told them I was not as stupid as they may think. After fixing it for us the problem persisted when I took it back they were trying to force me to believe that was how a seat belt was suppose to work. For heaven sake, I have own 12 yr old VW and the belt worked better. As a result we had to place a scissors in the car and for 6 months my 4yr old did not want to sit in that car. The winter was the worse periods because I had to pull on the seat belt and adjust it several times before getting it to work in the cold freezing winter. I paid over $ 550 monthly as lease payment to endure such brutality from Hyundai. There were so many other customer service problems with this vehicle from Hyundai America to the local dealership including transmission breakdown that the least said the better. I decided to add a little more $200 to get an Acura MDX and I feel liberated. NEVER again will I spend my hard earned dollars on a Hyundai. The cost savings is not worth the dangerous risk . What if we were at a shopping mall parking lot and my little darling got stuck and foamed to death as she was choking.

Nice at first-now the worst purchase ever

I bought the Santa Fe in April of 2013. I put a lot of miles on my vehicle with highway travel back and forth to work and driving my child to her activities. Currently my vehicle has 40,000 in October of 2014. I really enjoyed the vehicle at first, until the funny clunking sound started in the front end while starting off from a complete stop. After my Hyundai ceritifed service department at Bob Brady Dodge proceded to tell me nothing was wrong with my vehicle and that they had driven it 10 miles, although the odometer had the same mileage as when it was dropped off. When the service guy rode with me he did confirm it didn't sound right, although they convinced me it was just the AWD.

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She's Just Fine

Passenger seat is not full power. Dash material on the cheap side but acceptable. The only thing I would change about this vehicle is to delete the rubber trim around the wheel wells and across the lower body. This trim is unsightly even when new, and, unfortunately, appears on most all suv's nowadays. However, Hyundai's sister, Kia, has a Sorento with a trim level where none of this rubber is present, thus, there should be no reason Hyundai cannot do the same. Nevertheless, this has been a great vehicle and I would most certainly purchase it again and recommend it to anyone should I trade it soon for something new.

Cracked motor

I bought a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe mid 2018. I bought the vehicle from autonation ford in coconut creek. I’m the second owner of the vehicle with a clean title and accident free. Bought the car with 102xxx miles and the car currently has 109xxx. The car stopped working at a red light when i was about to make a uturn took to King Hyundai to check, because that’s where i get all my services done by the manufacture since i bought the vehicle, they told me that the motor was cracked. A cracked motor on an accident free vehicle. Hyundai decided not to give any help. Will never buy or refer any vehicles from them ever again. Jonathas pires