Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.

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    1 year ago

    It was a timing chain - it failed somehow and destroyed the engine. It’s a well known issue with this specific engine block which is why they stopped making them and they’re impossible to find new-in-crate engines for this car.

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      Which year/model or engine? Worth noting many car manufacturers have struggled with timing chain issues on at least one engine. VW struggled with it on more than one engine, BMW, I’m pretty sure there was even a Honda or Toyota engine that had a weak timing chain system at some point. If they actually stopped making the engine because of it, good on them, because other manufacturers (especially VW) definitely don’t. Other Hyundai engines have rock solid reputations. One bad experience is called an anecdote, and it’s not a good reason to discredit a brand.

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        It was a Theta II 2.0L FR Turbo MPI (G4KF).

        But I’m not just going off my experience. My good friend owns a well known mechanics shop in town, he told us these engines are garbage and he sees it often on these early genesis coupes.

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          Ah yeah that one wasn’t a very good one, it got recalled for crankshaft manufacturing defects and they got sued when the problem ended up being worse than anticipated and the money they set aside wasn’t enough. The early genesis coupes were also pretty unreliable in general. Actually, I’d say Hyundai was unreliable in general in the 2000s. They were a mixed bag, the 2009 Elantra had a rock solid drivetrain but crappy electronics for example, and the theta 2 engines were plagued with failures. But pretty much anything 2015+ is rock solid, they seem to have learned from that one.

          I didn’t realize you were talking about Hyundai as of like 15 years ago, though that should have been obvious since the car in your story was 10 years old

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            Ya know, amongst the Hyundai hate, I kinda forgot that my first car was a used 2003 XG350… and I did love that thing. Drove it into the ground, but it really held it’s own until I finally had to scrap it in 2017.

            I switched to Honda because simple repairs are easier and parts are normally cheaper. And it’s just overall, a better and more reliable car. But that xg350 was pretty damn good to me

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                I think I got lucky with that one. Changing the alternator was a huge pain in my ass, but it mostly performed as expected and was otherwise incredibly reliable. RIP my first car, you were good to me

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            Lol yeah it was a 2013 Genesis - the last year they were able to use the wings logo before they got sued by bentley and forced to remove it