2012 Hyundai Santa Fe: brake failure

5 of the 355 complaints about the 2012 Hyundai Santa Fe describe brake failure.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 1%
typical mileage: 16,000
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 4 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Brake failure by model year

2023
5
2022
2
2020
1
2019
2
2017
3
2016
2
2015
2
2014
7
2013
4
2012
5
2011
2
2010
1
2009
4
2008
11
2007
7
2006
2
2005
3
2004
8
2003
9
2002
1
2001
2

What owners say

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 24, 2014 · Acceleration, Brakes · 23,000 miles · CA

Please investigate the hyundai line of cars. I was driving this car that I owned. I had just driven 140 miles, and I was on city streets making my way to the inlaws. I stopped at a stop sign and as I accelerated and proceeded to make a right turn on to another city street, the engine completely died. I noticed it when my power steering locked up, I had no brakes and I was headed right toward a home's front door. I was able to stop the car when it hit the curb dead on. I then put the car in to park and turned the car back on and it fired up right away. I really believe that hyundai has the same problem as gm. There was nothing wrong with the car after that and I could not duplicate the incident. I traded the car in a few days later because I refuse to drive it. If you google the problem, I was able to trace it back at least 11 years. How can you trust a car that where the engine will just turn off sporadically. Dealership claims "they've never heard of such a thing..." lies. The know about it, they just haven't done anything about it. I seriously think there needs to be an investigation in to this vehicle. I saw stories of peoples hyundais dying on the freeway. They could have been killed. One lady said that she was told next time it happens to leave the car as is and they will tow it and check it out. They towed it after it died and nothing. That's what leads to me believe that in this vehicle, the key can also become disengaged while driving. Similar if not exactly to the problems with the gm. I beg of you to investigate!!!

Filed Mar 19, 2014 · Brakes · 43,220 miles · SC · crash

While traveling on state park road greenville sc, a mail truck was stopped in road. As I applied the brakes, the brake pedal went all the way to the floor. I swerved off the road to avoid hitting the truck. I side swiped several trees causing approx. $5000.00 worth of damage.

Filed Nov 26, 2012 · Brakes · 5,000 miles · GA · crash

I was stopped in a left turn lane and I believe I was the 8th or 9th vehicle in line. I had my foot on the brake pedal and the pedal went to the floor! I turned my steering wheel to the left as far as I could, but I tapped the bumper of the vehicle in front of me. There were no injuries and very minor damage to the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of me, and very minor damage to my front bumper. No other vehicles were involved. I called the hyundai dealership and told them that my brakes had failed and had caused an accident. I was told that it was probably not the brakes, but the master brake cylinder. I had the vehicle towed to the dealership (carl gregory hyundai, at northlake, columbus, ga) this morning I called to check on the status of the vehicle and was told that they had driven the vehicle for 200 miles and could not reproduce the problem. I had already told them that I was stopped in a turn lane when the brakes failed!! I was told that the hyundai representative told them to replace the master cylinder.

Filed Sep 24, 2012 · Brakes · 2,850 miles · MA

Stopped at a red light the brakes failed to work.