Takata recall. the car has about 48000 miles. 1) when driving at highway speed, brake self applies forcefully at times when passing or being passed by other vehicles on the adjacent lanes on both sides, almost creating rear-end collisions on a few occasions. 2) when resetting the cruise control to the previous setting, it continues to accelerate past previous setting (over 100 mph) until being manually disengaged. 3) at times, at highway or local speed, the engine would cut off briefly while showing a quickly flashed message, then engine would power-up again a few seconds later for normal driving. 4) took the car to the dealership and advised that moisture inside the right rear tail light housing was the cause for the electrical problems. this vehicle has never been in an accident or damaged and according to many mechanics i have consulted, the fissure on tail light housing is probably due to poor workmanship from the factory. dealer cost for this repair, $1800.00. the dashboard cover is lifting off (getting unglued) from its base due to the florida heat. cost for repair, more than $4,000. due to the incessant number of daily robocalls, please contact by phone text or email. thank you
This is the e-mail that i sent to hyundai to notify them of a serious safety issue w. their new equus: i wanted to alert you about a potentially severe safety issue that happened to occur while my 13 yr old son & i were examining the equus at the charlotte autoshow. i was sitting in the driver seat, my son was sitting in the passenger seat & another couple, who we did not know, were in the back seat checking out the electronic controls. suddenly, the passenger seat started to move forward & at the same time the seat back began to fold forward. my son shouted out that the seat was moving, but neither he nor i were touching any of the controls. the couple in back noticed this, but continued to examine/try the controls on the rear seat center arm rest. my son sitting in the passenger seat, which had now moved completely forward, with the seat back still continuing to move, could not reach the door handle to escape. within a few seconds he became pinned against the dash board & was crushed between the seat back & the dash. i yelled out for everyone to stop touching buttons immediately, while i also tried to move the seat toward the rear using the buttons on the top/side of the passenger seat. the seat stopped moving forward & i was then able to move it rearward, freeing my son. he was gasping for air at the point & another auto show attendee opened the door from the outside, allowing my son to escape. i called one of the hyundai show reps over to the car to point out this safety issue & he took note. the root cause was the rear seat couple was trying to adjust their seats, but they were unknowingly using the control that moves the passenger seat forward for more rear leg room. there appears to be no safety sensor that prevents this. there should be a safety switch, using the front passenger weight to deactivate the rear seat controls for the front passenger seat.