2005 Hyundai Santa Fe: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed Jun 11, 2019 · Acceleration · 106,797 miles · NJ

Me and my wife experienced a sudden unintended acceleration with our 2005 hyundai santa fe while driving. Please help. I went to hyundai dealer and said that no indicator or engine light on.

Filed Sep 27, 2016 · Acceleration, Brakes · 58,600 miles · OH · crash

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 hyundai santa fe. The contact stated that while driving from a stop at 20 MPH, the vehicle independently accelerated without warning. The contact mentioned that the brake pedal was depressed but failed to respond. As a result, the contact drove over a curb and crashed into two trees. The air bags did not deploy. No police report was filed and no injuries were sustained. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 58,600.

Filed Jan 21, 2016 · Engine, Transmission · 96,052 miles · NJ

In the past 2 months this has happened more and more frequently. When stopped at a red light, the car will suddenly surge forward. I must throw it into neutral to stop it. Even when I am in park it will suddenly act like I am giving it gas when I am not. It is very scary and happening much more frequently.

Filed Dec 1, 2013 · Electrical, Engine · 119,131 miles · WA

Started engine. Placed the automatic transmission selection into reverse. The engine immediately had an unintended acceleration to perhaps 2500 RPM. Operator immediately applied very heavy pressure on the brake pedal to stop any rear direction movement. Operator immediately moved the shift lever back to the park position, shut off the ignition and restarted the vehicle. After restarting, everything was back to normal. This had also occurred one other time in september, 2013 under the same circumstances. Operator initially assumed that perhaps his foot had moved to the right and was depressing both the accelerator and the brake at the same time, but when attempting to see if this could be done, operator could not replicate. It is assumed the throttle sensor locator may be faulty. Very disturbing when this happens and could easily result in property or personal damage..

Filed Mar 1, 2013 · Acceleration, Airbags · 71,000 miles · TX · crash · 1 injury

My moms santa fe has sped out of control several times in the last three months. The last incident caused injuries because the air bag failed to deploy. The first incident was in a parking lot where the car had unintended acceleration and crashed into several cars. Second incident was on the road where car sped up and she turned it off. The third was backing out of a shopping center parking lot where the car rapidly accelerated in reverse hitting a car and then tried to put in neutral but went into drive instead. She hit a post and the front end wrapped around the post but air bag did not deploy causing injury. State farm and many attorneys won't touch this case because of the costs involved to sue such a large corporation.

Filed Feb 14, 2012 · Acceleration, Fuel system · 55,000 miles · FL

Sudden unintended acceleration. While driving my vehicle, the car "lurches" forward and the engine "reves" up. I've had it to the mechanic numerous times and they can not seem to find a reason for this to be happening. It is a very scary situation. I have 2 small children and have become fearful when driving my car. This happens on the highway as well as regular street roads. I've seen many forums on line with the same complaints from other hyundai owners. I really hope that someone looks into these complaints.

Filed Jul 28, 2010 · Acceleration · 108,000 miles · NY

Engine races when started when engine is cold (first time started every day.). While driving, car will suddenly accelerate. Dealership reprogrammed transmission settings per a tsb, engine still races when started and the surging has gotten worse. Surging occurs at speeds from 15 to 65 MPH.

Filed Feb 17, 2010 · Acceleration · 15,000 miles · 00 · crash · 1 injury

Sudden unintended acceleration in a hyundai santa fe causing a major accident at our house with extensive damage to vehicle and property, and some personal injury. The vehicle had previously been reported as having over-revved on occasion, but the dealer had been unable to replicate the fault, and this had not occurred for some time. On this occasion the engine stuck in maximum revs, even in neutral, and an independent engineer attributed this to faulty cable positioning, although it is not know whether that caused the original sua or just the sticking. The airbag failed to inflate despite major impact. Hyundai have been singularly unhelpful and denied knowledge of this sort of thing occurring before, which is clearly untrue. Unfortunately we are not, and the incident was not, in the us, but we have been asked to report this to you by others in the us affected by the same problem, because of hyundai's disinterest.

Filed Jul 27, 2009 · Acceleration · 8,600 miles · CA

Tl*the contact owns a 2005 hyundai santa fe. While driving at high or low speeds, the vehicle will suddenly surge forward without warning. The failure also occurred while the vehicle was in reverse. The vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealer. The current and failure mileages were 8,600.

Filed Nov 15, 2005 · Acceleration · 7,000 miles · RI · crash

When put into reverse 2005 santa fe engine roared. *ts the consumer had no control over the vehicle. With the vehicle still in reverse, the consumer crashed into a neighbors deck causing a considerable amount of damage to the vehicle and the deck. The consumer had a left foot accelerator installed on the vehicle and wondered if that was the cause of the sudden acceleration.

Filed Oct 17, 2005 · Acceleration · 6 miles · CO

Accelerator pedal. Vehicle hesitates when taking off from a stop,then suddenly accelerates sometimes much to quickly causing some loss of control. Mechanic at hyundai tried to reset computer but informed us that it is set to manufacturers standards problem has so far been un-fixable and the vehicle remains unsafe.