Typical “asian” quality.

Who is surpised?

I heard that Hemi.

A dealer here in Missouri is having a 2 for 1 Hyundai sale.

Hyundais aren’t supposed to last long enough to have rust issues! I towed on of them the other day, the whole undercarriage was swiss cheese. I wouldn’t say people who buy crap like this deserve what they get, but what did they expect? It’s a cheap, ****ty little toaster. Do we really have to launch an investigation to prove it?

And another BTW… years ago when a car rusted, the whole car rusted visibly. Plus, the paint was crap. With todays clear coat paints, the body still looks great, but the whole bottom end is gone. When the car is unsafe, it usually comes as a complete shock to the owner.

It does say something about vehicle build quality improvements over the years, and people’s lack of routine maintenance in a quality repair facility. Those Wal-mart oil change shops just don’t cut it!

A good undercoating would help.

Some American quality built parts would have helped better.

Boo hyundai, they’ll allways make inferior vehicles!

Yea American quality that catches on fire in various ways injures 69 people and has bad brakes
Thats the heartbeat of America
Quality built lol
I would take a new Sonata over a Malibu or especially a G6 right JR ???

You remember they called the old fords “T-Buckets” They should call this sonata the “Bucket-O-Rust”. Does it come with a free can of Rustoleum?

There are still ‘99 Sonata’s on the road? Maybe Hyundai should get an award for them lasting that long…

Hyundai always been inferior to Japanese manufacturers. Especially during their alliance with Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi. They should’ve learned from better manufacturers like Toyota, Honda, Nissan. Korea in Asia like Florida in US: not a place for intelligence.

YOU might take a Sonata, but you’d br a frigging idiot. Oh wait, who am I talking to?

I am yet to meet a Hyundai owner who wasn’t WAY upside down on it. Talk about zip for resale value!

Exactly injunraiv, you still see early 90’s berettas and corsicas not rusted out.

2002 model year? That’s not that long ago. I mean we’re talking about an issue here that has been pretty much non-existent since the early ’80s. I don’t mean to be vindictive, but Hyundai has unloaded so much crap on the North American market they deserve this. Stay away people. There is far better product out there that is no more expensive, and even if it is priced slightly higher there’s a reason for it. You get what you pay for.

This is the type of thing I’ve always said about Hyundais – they’re great at making everything you touch and feel on a daily basis (radio, switches, etc.) nice, and they load their cars with features, but they cut corners where you don’t see (frame, suspension, engine internals, brakes, etc.). This corner cutting shows up in durability problems as the car ages. Hyundai sells the sizzle, not the steak. Those who don’t know cars can’t tell the difference, especially when new.

Oh here we go again… all of these mysterious people maimed by GM… and now we actually have a number too. Please oh great one… where’s one of your precious links to this? So we can see these horrible injuries which are probably only minor incidents… And just out of curiosity… how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of vehicles were these 69 incidents out of? Either way… I’m completely convinced… 69 incidents/complaints is far worse than the 500-some complaints registered about the 2007 Camry… oh wait – we can’t acknowledge those because their from Toyota and because we always seem to forget the link to the NHTSA whenever we have to look up something about a Japanese manufacturer.

But then… what else would we expect from a little hypocrite troll who lies through his teeth?

Complaints vs actual injuries HMMM think about that
and why not post these mysterious complaints and show me how many were injured, then go watch X files

Still don’t see one of your magical links…. and should I even ask what the **** the X-Files comments are about?

1115 – lol, “how many people are injured” is not a defense to bad quality. By the way, how many people were injured by the Corvette wrong-glue on the roof problem? How many were injured in…I can’t remember any other GM recalls right now. But tell me how many were injured for the Corvette issue pleasei

Since Hyundai did not get foothold on middle class market in US, recall of 2002 model year will not be huge. I doubt that many of them on the road. The lower segment of population does not maintain cars all that well (not some individuals, but on as a whole segment) so not so many 7 year old cars are running. I don’t think they were that great to begin with. Even in high school parking lot I don’t see Hyundai in my middle class town. And kids love new cars and usually cheapest because they can afford them. I’d say it is not a big deal one way or another.

U GIT WUT U PAY 4

lol… next time maybe the owners of these cars will think twice before buying crap from overseas. My 27 year old American car has barely any runst, a little but in the window frames behind the weather seals. Meanwhile every Japanese car I see that’s over 15 years old is a total rust-bucket.

Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boinZ5BIlkw

autonut – it does matter, because now losers like 1115 (who has yet to respond to my earlier comment) will NOT be able to say that Hyundai has a great “track record” and what not. You see, he is obsessed with Asia and all of its carmakers so Hyundai is one of his favorites. But when he claims how Hyundai is “safe, reliable, and” whatever else his usual rant says, we can all point to the fact that he is wrong. Not that this recall is THAT big of a deal (neither are SOME of all those recent Toyonda recalls) but they do prove that these Asian companies are no different than GM. They ALL have recalls, GM seems to have less though lately. The point is that America is not getting blown out of the park by any measure since all of our competitors are simply, at best, ON PAR with us

99-02, that’s when Hyundai began building better cars. They weren’t there then and they are still not quite there yet, but I agree, you get what you pay for. Hey look on the bright side, these Hyundai were running when it rusted out. Better than some other cars when the car is practically brand new after 3 years because they spent more time with mechanics than their owners; more time in shops than on the road.

Come on, sharpie – there weren’t THAT many Toyotas in the shop for engine sludge, were there?

HemiRoadRunner and 400horseSS are the 1115 version of the domestic fanboys.

Why are you trying to start $H!T? Are you just that geeky? Never heard of a domestic RUST problem since the early 80’s.

And we live in America DUMB@$$. Why would I not support my own people you cowardly f’ing traitor.

google “2007 camary transmission issues”
you’ll find more than 500 links

camary ? Ill look Also you look for Enclave camshaft problems and Enclave is spelled correctly

1115 is a ****smooch.

I checked it out and not nearly the amount of issues…yet.

It’s a Junkai err…..Hyundai!!! What do you expect? HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!