1998 Hyundai Sonata: power window failure

Filed Jul 18, 2010 · Electrical, Locks · 281,884 miles · TX

I bought my hyundai in 2004. My 1998 hyundai sonata vehicle driver and passenger interior part of doors are stuck. I had the passenger side front door repaired the same year. It stuck again in 2006 and has been that way to this day. My problem now is that the driver side door is now stuck as of july 10 2010. I cannot afford repairs at the moment because the car just cut off while driving friday, july 16, 2010 and hopefully I can afford the repairs to get it working again. I must climb over the seat to the back and go out of the rear passenger door. The driver side rear door is not working because of the latch (they continue to break) and I have replaced all of them at one point. They are $25.00 at the jay mark hyundai. They are listed below: driver side window is broken. I went down and never came up again. I could not afford repairs then and asked the mechanic to push it up and put a screw so that it would not come down again. The latch has broken and been replaced twice. The third time I was not going to buy another latch. The door is stuck and will not open. The passenger side window will not go down completely. The passenger side front door will not open it is also stuck and has been for years. I had it repaired and about a year later it would no open again. The rear driver window will not go up and stay up. It will come down inch by inch until a certain point and now I cannot get it to go up again. The latch is also broken on that door as well and I had that latch replaced but only once. The electrical system caught fire.the electrical system is in disrepair again because the tail lights will work for a couple of days at a time and then they are out again or it will short out the bulbs and at night I must slightly touch the brakes while driving to have the tail lights and avoid a ticket. Because of the electrical problems they car will not pass inspection. The system is never ready. The battery will short from time to time and I must replace.

Filed Jun 2, 2005 · Steering · 90,500 miles · FL

My 1998 hyundai sonata has been a challenge to maintain. Twice the driver's side door spring has rusted through and window regulators have failed. This particular incident was a fortunate stop in the car shop to check something else. They discovered that the rack and pinion unit was leaking power steering fluid. I had been complaining to the mechanic that the car "clunked" in the front end going over a bump. This despite replacing the ball joints, struts and one tie rod. It seems that the clunking noise must have been coming from the rack and pinion. They also discovered at the same time that two out of four engine mounts were cracked and the other two were sagging. I'll be replacing those as well and hoping that the car doesn't cause any further problems for a while. I believe in maintaining my cars, but this car seems to have had more problems than most I have owned. The car has also overheated twice, once due to a burst hose and the second time due to a leak in one of the engine coolant temperature sensors in the block. For the latter incident there was absolutely no warning (gradually increasing operating temp over time). It also has the hard down shift from 3-2 (automatic transmission) that others have noticed. I won't be purchasing a hyundai again as I feel that this is way too many problems for a car with only 90,000 miles on it.

Filed Jul 20, 2002 · Visibility · NJ

March 25, 2002 my driver side window would not close. I had purchased an extended service contract when I purchased this vehicle new in 1998. I took it to my local dealer, burlington auto mart, in burlington, nj, to be repaired. I checked my contract and thought this part, 83403-34011 regulator, would be covered. They said it wasn't. I contacted the hyundai protection plan administrators at hyundai motor america in fountain valley, ca and received a letter from denise lowrie, admin. Assurance prod. Dept., that said it wasn't covered. I was still in the process of trying to get this problem straightened out when on july 19th my driver side front window regulator also broke. I spoke to jason taylor, another administrator in the assurance prod. Dept., who said he gets several calls a week questioning whether the window regulators on the 1997 & 1998 sonatas are covered under the plan. He said that the plan was changed in 1999 and the regulator is now considered part of the window motor and so it is covered on the 1999 and newer sonatas. My extended contract states that the power window motors and gears are covered. The window regulators are not mentioned under exclusions. I don't know if you can look into this matter, but I really feel that the regulator problems should be examined, as it sounds like there are way too many regulators failing in the 1997 & 1998 sonatas.

Filed Dec 8, 2000 · Visibility · AZ

While attempting to open/close power window, window will not work. Problem had started with driver's side window first. Then, other two windows on passenger's side front and rear did not work.

Filed Sep 28, 2000 · Visibility · IL

Front passenger's window does not roll down ,it is stuck possibly due to window regulator or window tape. Please provide further information.