Are hyundai cars reliable and safe? Compared to toyota, honda, and those kinds of japanese car companies, is hyundai still a good car company?
I am Korean and recently i’ve heard of the bad reputations of Hyundai and Kia, so i’d like to know foreigners opinions.
There is still a premium people pay for the Toyota or Honda nameplate, despite Hyundai making absolutely reliable vehicles. Ignore the haters; this isn’t the same Hyundai that released the Excel in 1986. They have the same reliability as the bigger Japanese nameplates.
I think the past 3-4 years with the new SmartStream engines have been going well so far but the old 2.4l, 1.6T, 2.0T I wouldn’t touch. They still have a ton of recalls and stuff but they’re mostly very minor dumb things that don’t affect longevity in any way.
In Australia they are.
From what I’ve been able to conclude its mostly the American Hyundai’s that have issues.
Happy to be corrected though
I am commenting this as a Honda owner. I don’t even consider Honda as reliable anymore. AC system on my car has failed multiple times and company had failed to give me resolution.
I had a choice of Hyundai Elantra against Civic. And I regret it now. I know problems could’ve come with Elantra as well. But I had to pay premium for Civic because it is a Honda. Idk Hyundai is reliable or not. But at least they don’t have premium associated with them.
It seems they have some immobilizer problems.
I have no problems with my Korean-made Hyundai Elantra N-line. There are some definite issues with certain products though …
Hyundai admits that up to 2 million vehicles are affected by oil control / oil consumption issues, requiring engine replacement necessitating extending the warranty on a lot of engines. That said, the percentage of engine failure is supposedly in the 2-3% range in reality, even though millions of cars fall under the class action lawsuit. I’m curious how many of these are from Korea, vs. other countries. You never see people quote their VIN or build-location when talking about engine issues…
Hyundai also was late to the game to include immobilizers in their cars, leading to a rash of TikTok inspired vehicle thefts across the USA. This has jacked insurance rates through the roof, even prevented some people from obtaining insurance coverage and the aftermath of the break-ins and thefts. This has nothing to do with reliability, though.
American production cars have had massive issues to the point that I wouldn’t say their new cars fixed the issue until we can look back 5 years from now considering pretty much every vehicle in their lineup in the last decade has potentially had catastrophic flaws. Multiple engine replacements isn’t out of the norm for a single car.
In general their American production system has been shoddy. They’ve been caught hiring Central American kids as young as 12 in their subsidiary parts factories in Alabama and had a 14 year old welding car parts so the entire American operation is sketch imo
Yes, and no. I think they are reliable because me personally I’ve never had major problems with them and neither has my friends and family with Hyundai’s either. But there was the Theta II engine issue and not everyone’s car lasted as long so you’ll here different opinions on that. But there are also people that are just so negative on everything so you can’t always take their word on it.
I’ve personally owned 3 Hyundais and I haven’t had a single issue with them. Currently I have a '22 Santa Cruz and I love driving it every day. Since I have just about 15k miles on my Santa Cruz I can’t say how well it’d hold up, but the 2 Sonatas I’ve owned never had any issues, only maintenance I did on them were the basics, so if you test drive one and love it, I’d say go for it!