When I am driving, both freeway and city driving, the car will stutter slightly and then the ESC off light comes on along with the check engine light. When this happens I lose acceleration and have to pull over, turn my car off, wait a minute or two, and then restart the car. The ESC off light goes away and I once again have acceleration but the check engine light remains on. The problem often repeats itself during the same trip, sometimes 30 minutes later, sometimes just 2 minutes later. The stop lamp switch was replaced during the recall campaign 09v122 when the same problem was occurring. A few months ago this started again, it is all the same issues as I had before the stop lamp switch was replaced during the last recall. Because I lose acceleration with no warning and quickly fall to 20mph and below, I have to quickly pull over to the side of the road and do my best to avoid an accident which is difficult when you are losing momentum.
2008 Hyundai Santa Fe driver assistance complaints
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I had my santa fe serviced on 04/05/16 for fuel gauge sensor,was not reading appropriate gas level. I have only 72000miles and somthing like this should be a recall.I was told that happened because of the age of the car,which I don't believe.we owned 8 cars before sant fe and it never happened. It is a spendy repair of $388.99 marta
While in motion on the city street going 45 miles per hour the electronic stability control shut off. Lost the ability to accelerate and couldn't do anything else with the vehicle. Had to put it in park, shut off the engine and wait for 2 mins then restarted the car and it worked fine. But after driving a while longer the ESC shut off again. Had to repeat the process of turning off the engine and restarting the car again. While making a turn a little whike later it shut off again. Took it into the shop and they couldn't figure out what is causing the problem.
My santa fe limited awd 2008 was bought at the end of feb 2009 and now has ~44k mileage. I had two similar incidents with my santa fe today (7/6/2014), which LED to significant power loss and speed loss of the car on the road. The first time, I was driving on a local road at ~45 MPH. Suddenly I felt the car lost the power and began to slow down. I stepped down on the accelerator, but the car could not accelerate (the speed dropped to ~20 MPH). I saw 3 system indicator/warning lights on: the ESC off(electronic stability control) and check engine indicators had a steady light and the awd system warning light was flashing. I pulled off to the side of the road, shut off the car, waited ~1 minute, and then restarted the car. The check engine light stayed on, but the other lights went out. Then I drove the car to continue my grocery shopping (several stops, ~30 miles in total). The 2nd incident occurred on my way home. The same scenario except that I was driving at ~40 MPH and going uphill at the time. The sudden power loss caused the car speed quickly dropped to ~10 MPH and probably LED the car behind mine to make a sudden stop to avoid a crash. Again, I pulled off to the side of the road, shut off the engine, and then restarted the car with the check engine light staying on. After got home safely, I did some search online and found several similar incidents reported on hyundai santa fe suvs before (see the attached links below). So I decided to report this serious issue. The link of websites with similar incidents reported: 1. Http://www.justanswer.com/hyundai/47z2r-hyundai-santa-fe-limited-hi-hyundai-santa-fe-awd-2008.html 2. Http://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/9216/hyundai/santa-fe/hyundai-santa-fe-engine-problems/p2 (altosteph post) 3. Http://www.hyundaiforum.com/forum/hyundai-santa-fe-20/4wd-system-warning-light-blinking-loss-power-12357/
See attached email updated 06/04/2013*lj the occupant classification system (osc) does not consistently recognize small-statured adults, causing the passenger side air bag to deactivate when such person occupy the front seat. Also, there were problems with the transmission, a knocking noise coming from the front of the vehicle, the vehicle shutting down, an issue with the throttle cable, and a whining sound upon acceleration.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 hyundai santa fe. The contact was driving approximately 40 MPH and attempted to accelerate however, the ESC and check engine warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle became resistant to acceleration attempts and was coasted off road and shut off. After waiting a few moments, the vehicle restarted and resumed normal operation. The intermittent failure recurred whenever the vehicle was in motion. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired for the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.
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