2012 Hyundai Santa Fe brakes problems

Filed Oct 21, 2026 · Brakes, Lights · FL

This car is made to have water go into the rear tail lights,then keeps shorting out my brake lights. I have to drive with 0 brake lights, except for the top bar one. When I replaced them, it shorted them out again and has been this way the entire time I have had this car. The car should not be made to have water go directly into the tail light when the trunk door is lifted, you can see it and goes into the right rear taillight but then shorted both of them out. I cannot keep replacing my tail lights nor should I have to! It is dangerous for me to have to drive with 0 brake/tail lights. This car was made incorrectly and therefore should be recalled before I get rearended and hurt! Drilling holes in bottom of tail lights did not work or solve issue either.

Filed Dec 14, 2020 · Brakes, Electrical · 130,000 miles · GA

All three lights ABS, ESC, and dbc on dash came on same time after replacing drivers side head light bulb. Wheel speed sensor and traction control impacting the driveability.

Filed Dec 2, 2020 · Brakes, Electrical · 80,000 miles · FL

My ESC, dbc, and ABS warning lights all illuminated at the same time this morning. There are many complaints of this happening on numerous hyundai forms. Folks have been told to replace hubs, sensors and assorted other pieces. Most do not work costing hundreds of dollars. My particular vehicle had the lights come on maybe 6 or 8 months ago. Go off and come on again and off again. I've ignored them not noticing any driving impact. But the car is warning me that it isn't safe to drive the car. This is not a one of or two or three issue. This from another owner;all three light illuminated on my 2011 santa fe so I changed my front right ABS speed sensor which was the cause of the lights, but the dash lights are still illuminated. Took it to the dealer and they said there is a short in the ABS system wiring harness. What's the cost to fix? $4500.00 really! I think a recall is due for this problem.

Filed Feb 28, 2019 · Brakes, Engine · 124,000 miles · MD

While driving on a busy street, I slowly turned a corner and suddenly lost my power steering and brakes and the engine stalled out. I immediately turned off the engine, sat briefly blocking the heavy traffic, after being slightly shaken in the incident, started it up again and proceeded to park and get lunch. After lunch, the car started up ok, I got on the road and shortly after, I noticed the engine light come on so I immediately limped into a nearby car repair place . They determined that there was very heavy sludge clogging the oil filter, even though we had regular maintenance on the vehicle and never had any engine indicators ever come on before. They cleaned out the sludge in the engine and replaced the filter and pump. Now that I am reading about everyone's engine problems with oil not getting into the engine, and after hearing on tv about hyundai refusing to recall my particular car, I am very afraid to continue driving it, since recently I have experienced twice a certain sluggishness/dragging with a slight knocking feeling in the steering wheel. I noticed this effect twice after having driven the car at speeds of 60-70 MPH for a long period of time. Each instance, I slowed to the side of the road, checked to see if I could see anything obvious, which I didn't, started up again onto the highway. The weird dragging and shimmy continued, so I drove at or under 50 MPH until it slowly dissipated and went back to what felt normal. I was very disappointed to find out that there is no recall on my hyundai santafe 2012, we bought it second-hand from enterprise car sales. I rely heavily on this vehicle to drive 2 1/2 hours each way at highway speeds to care for my elderly mom's needs in baltimore. I don't want to die on the highway before my mom dies in the nursing home!

Filed Jan 30, 2019 · Brakes, Engine · 125,000 miles · MN · crash

While driving the engine would decelerator then cut out. I can be on the highway going speed limits of 70 or on a side street going 30 or under. It even happened when I pulled out of my drive way and drove down my street (4 houses down) and got to my cul-de-sac and all power shut down. Neighbor had to stop to avoid hitting me because I was rolling and could not stop. All power to steering wheel and brakes would be non operational. I have to manually pull the wheel to one side to avoid traffic, causing an accident, or from being hit by head on traffic. The first occurrence was in february of 2017 and the most recent was january 18th on my way home from work. It has happened to us over a dozen times and found blogs that state that hyundai denies that this is happening.

Filed Nov 14, 2018 · Brakes, Wheels · 16,000 miles · FL

My ABS lights are on and won't go off. I had it checked for 80$ to get told it is a sensor in the rear hub of tire that is not reading the tire speed. They want 500$ to repair it.

Filed Nov 4, 2018 · Brakes · FL

"takata recall" my ABS lights are on and will not go off as well as the downhill light moving and stationary. The mechanic said it is a sensor in the left rear hub that needs to be replaced.

Filed Oct 2, 2017 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 128,000 miles · NC

Started car, noticed the following dash lights were on: ABS ESC downhill braking checked online and found that hyundai recalled 1.7 million vehicles for this problem (defective brake lamp switch) up to 2011. I'm concerned that my 2012 car has the same issue, even though my VIN is not included in the recall. These lights stay on no matter if moving or stationary.

Filed May 29, 2017 · Brakes, Engine · 16,000 miles · CA

We have had 3 separate instances when our SUV stalled and the engine shut down when proceeding to drive once a stop signal changed. The most recent occurred yesterday when we made a right turn onto us 101 from steiner street in sf. The power steering went out, the brakes failed and the engine shut down. The car restarted once I got it back into park. It was a harrowing experience on this busy street

Filed Apr 8, 2017 · Brakes, Engine · 86,700 miles · NJ

Takata recall I brought my car 1 year ago I've been doing maintenance oil change, tune up on my car, however it started making some type of ticking noise when I brought it back to the dealership I was told I could pay for a new engine or drive the car until it breaks down. I don't have any money for a new engine. I put 5000 dollars on the car for a down payment. Im also financin it at this time. Also the breaks making a squeaky sound in I know my breals are good.