2001 Hyundai Elantra Exterior lighting Problems

“2000 series Hyundai Elantra headlights. Interior surface of headlights melt, rapidly reducing effective length of vision because the headlight fogs up. Continuously occurs and headlights get worse over time. Dealer charges $100 dollars a headlight to temporarily fix it.”

“Headlights burning out frequently was the first sign of problems, replaced them as the dealer said this was inherent to the 2001 Elantra. In august 2006 check engine light came on. Also, the air bag sensor light was on, headlight out again, took car to dealer, they called back and said that the alternator had been over charging and not only was the over charging burning out the headlights it also had taken out the cruise control module, and air bag module. Car had only 42000 miles on it, and was 2 weeks from being out of the 5 year bumper to bumper warranty. …”

“I have had nothing but problems with this vehicle. The headlight constantly were blowing out, it guzzles gas like crazy! Then now two sensors are bad and per the dealer they have been having numerous problems with these sensors but won't replace them? I love Hyundai always had one but this one turned out to be a pain in the butt.”

“Incident date is estimated. I have put approximately 17,000 miles on the vehicle during the course of each year (never more than 20k or less than 15k) and on three separate occasions, all between 9 and 15 months apart, my headlights have failed. On one occasion both lamps failed within a two weeks and before I could replace the first failed one resulting in a potentially hazardous situation where I would have had no headlights. …”

“I have had some electrical problems from the day I purchased the car. Tried to resolve these with Hyundai but they said unless they were currnetly happening when the car was brought in there was nothing they could do about it. The mirror will sometimes move on its own and sometimes the electrical in the car will all go on without the car being on. The malfunciton light lights up here and there also. Also I have a problem with my front end suspention being very shakey and my brakes shake when stopping at higher speeds. I have only had the car a year. …”