Tl* the contact owns a 2012 hyundai elantra. While attempting to park, the vehicle accelerated independently and crashed into some branches. When the brake pedal was depressed, the vehicle was already in the branches. There were no injuries. The vehicle was still drivable. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The contact received a recall notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 15v871000 (electronic stability control); however, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 19,000.
2012 Hyundai Elantra driver assistance complaints
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Tl* the contact owned a 2012 hyundai elantra. While driving approximately 30 MPH, the brakes failed and the contact crashed the vehicle into a pole. The air bags did not deploy without warning. The contact sustained knee and chest injuries, but medical attention was not required. A police report was filed. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 15v871000 (electronic stability control). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle was destroyed. The VIN and failure mileage were unknown.
My car has been having issues with starting. The problem isn't all the time. I'm not sure what the trigger is, but one or twice a week, it won't start. I thought it was the battery, but it's not. I changed it and still giving me issues. I read online and found that it might be the range switch because people that has this issue had their range switch replaced and no more issue. Before they replaced the range switch, they recommended to put in "n" position before start, which I did and it worked for a while. Now, I have to put the e-brakes on before it cranks. The last couple of weeks, I have issues with locking my car. Neither the electronic push button on the door nor remote works. I had to manual lock it with the key. But this issue isn't all the time either. It only happened 6 times so far.
I was driving down a dry solid road with no obstructions or potholes. All of a sudden my car acted like it tried to shift gears, heard a strange noise and the car acted like it would not go faster when I stepped on the gas and felt like I lost some function control of the vehicle. It has done this before but only temporarily. Then the ESC (electronic stability control) light started flashing all with in 2 seconds. When I realized that it was not changing, I turned the ESC off and it went back to driving normally almost instantly. About a mile down the road I figured I would try to turn it back on because I remember being told by the dealership to leave it on. A few seconds passed and all of a sudden my wheels locked up and I lost control of the vehicle as my car started to turn sideways. I quickly turned off the ESC button and it corrected immediately, however, it felt like the transmission had to readjust after having the wheels locked up. I do not feel safe driving this vehicle any longer. I have an email with many other people who have reported this same issue (some have had actual accidents) that I can send you. This is very concerning and should have a recall done on this before this kills someone.
When riding the vehicle at 60 -70 MPH, and hitting a normal bump/hole in the road, the stability control makes very aggressive adjustments in the rear of the car and make you feel you are losing control of the car. During winter/snowy roads there is weak stability in the rear suspension. This is really scary!. Please help us identify what is the issue with this vehicle. Thanks
I was driving in dry weather and on normal road conditions when the ESC light begin to blink for no apparent reason. I could not accelerate when this occurred, and then the vehicle brakes locked up. Luckily, I was entering onto a on ramp and the vehicle skidded to a stop onto the shoulder. If this would have occurred while traveling at a higher rate of speed it could have been very dangerous. I had the vehicle towed to a nearby hyundai dealership for review of the issue.
Have had 3 instances during warm/hot weather that the ESC light has come on (blinking) during normal city driving (after a little freeway driving & using the AC) & the vehicle performance is impaired due to the ESC (no pwr or inadvertent braking w/o driver braking). Only way to bypass this is by using the ESC off button. It appears to go away after the car is shut off & cooled down. Guessing that this is some kind of heat related problem (maybe a short) which causes the ESC to improperly kick in.
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