2012 Hyundai Santa Fe steering problems

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 Nov 13, 2020 · Steering · 116,000 miles · NC

Twice as I was driving it mid turn the steering wheel locked on the regular street.

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 Jan 2, 2019 · Acceleration, Engine · 131,000 miles · CA

My vehicle is a 2012 hyundai santa fe with 131,000 miles. I was driving on the highway traveling about 65 MPH and lost power steering, power breaks, and speed control. My car began to slow and would not accelerate and was difficult to steer. Fortunately I had enough power/speed still to get over into the breakdown lane. I was able to use my directionals and hazard lights once on the side of the road. I shut off the car and attempted to start it again several times without success. The check engine light was on, as was the oil light and battery light. There was no discernible warning that would have indicated an impending engine failure. I had already driven 75 miles of my trip and it simply stopped running. In the middle of the highway! The cause of the problem is unknown to me and currently unknown to my mechanic. I had to have my car towed 50 miles to the mechanic. Getting it to a dealer would have been even father.

Filed Jan 1, 2018 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 150,000 miles · TX

I was at a four way-year-old and stop where I had to yield as I was doing the santa fe cut off and I lost all power steering wheel locked up and I couldn't control vehicle turn the key off and then turn the key back on the truck started 20 minutes later the truck would not start it when you return on the antitheft alarm keeps beeping

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 Mar 16, 2016 · Steering · UT

The steering wheel makes a "scraping" noise when turned. Hyundai says this is "normal"; however, up until a few months ago, the car never made this noise. My wife and I do not feel safe driving the car anymore; however, hyundai refuses to address the problem. My wife and I own a second vehicle that is the exact same make and model and it does not make this sound. Since the steering column is critical to the safety of the vehicle -and includes the air bag components, etc., we are very concerned that this could cause premature detonation of the airbag and/or some kind of steering failure. Hyundai refuses to fix the problem and we are concerned not just for our own safety but for the safety of all hyundai owners driving with this problem. Also, when I tried to escalate the complaint to hyundai's customer care, the supervisor (mr. Julio o.) refused to escalate the complaint -which causes me grave concern that hyundai is obstructing the complaint process in an effort to protect profit margins.

Filed Jul 16, 2014 · Electrical, Engine · 44,332 miles · NJ

When making a right hand turn at slow speed the cars stalls out. Today 7/16 is the 3rd time this has happened. The same event happened twice in the same week about 6 months ago then not again. This sounds too similar to the problems w/ gm cars.

Filed Jun 16, 2014 · Brakes, Engine · 72,917 miles · CA

My family has a 2012 hyundai santa fe. We started experiencing problems with the vehicle stalling while driving in 2013. The car stalled multiple times on city streets and once on the highway. When the car stalls, the driver loses power steering and brakes. It is a very dangerous situation. After the third time the car stalled we took it in for service in april of 2013 to the local hyundai dealership. The technician ran a complete diagnostic and said he could not find anything wrong with the vehicle. We refused to take the car at that time and insisted on more testing. They did find a problem. They replaced/repaired the etc-actuator and gasket-throttle body. The car ran fine until last week when it started the same problems again. It has stalled four times in the last week. The latest stall happened today when my girlfriend was driving the car at around 30 MPH. It also stalled last night when I was driving it home at about 25 MPH. I was able to get to the side of the road and put the car in park. I turned the key and it started right up again. When it stalled on me, I lost power steering and power brakes. The time of the incident was 9:48pm and the mileage on the car was 72,917. It was very scary. We are taking car to hyundai dealership today for repairs. We do not want to drive this car anymore. It is unsafe and a hazard.