2017 Hyundai Santa FE Brakes Problems

“On april 15, our brand new Santa Fe was involved in an accident. While driving in low speed traffic suddenly, while my fiance rear ended someone. To this day she cannot figure out what happened. She is a careful driver, does not speed and knows that the area were she was driving is high traffic and was coming up to a red light. Both of her hands were on the wheel and she wasn't on a phone or anything. She believes she hit the breaks, and as stated before still does not know what happened. …”

“9/18/17 while driving on highway at 65 MPH the ABS light came on and the vehicle while trying to accelerate moved slow as if to not want to shift. I got to the side of the freeway and turned the vehicle off and when I re started a few minuets later the light went out and vehicle operated without out problem. I made appointment with dealership for 9/26/17. They did some recall items and I mentioned the problem and was told if the light is out it may not show up. The failed to not on service order this issue. …”

“Smart cruise control fails to brake intermittently. It is designed to match speed with the car in front of it. It usually works fine, unless another vehicle cuts in front, even if there is enough time to brake. I have to slam on the brakes manually to avoid an accident. This has happened on multiple occasions. I now fear using the cruise control at all, as it does not perform correctly 100% of the time. The dealer said they could find nothing wrong, but this is a very real issue that puts my family at risk. …”

“This complaint has to do with the aeb ( automatic emergency braking ) system. This was a feature that LED me to purchase the car and I discussed it with the salesman at length at the time I purchased it. Shortly after purchasing the car, I started trying to test it to see if and how it worked. I could get no indication it was working without wrecking it. There is supposed to be 3 warning stages according to the manual ( 1 a message on lcd with warning alarms, 2 a 2nd collision warning message and limited control of the brakes, 3 emergency braking ). I never saw any of these. …”

“While driving at 25 MPH, numerous warning lights illuminated, including low tires, steering, other codes consisting of letters. Power steering failed, power brakes failed. Engine was still running. We were able to pull the car off the road safely. Steering warning light still illuminated as were tire warnings. The tires were fully inflated, engine still running. We turned the engine off, raised the hood to check for thrown belt. Belts were intact. Tried to restart the engine, it made a clicking and a sizzling sound and would not start. Called dealer, dealer gave number for Hyundai assurance. …”