NHTSA Complaint #11114226 — 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA

ON JULY 10,2018 I TOOK MY 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA LIMITED TO MCCAFFERTY HYUNDAI SERVICE IN LANGHORNE, PA FOR A ROUTINE FRONT BRAKE JOB. AS I DROVE HOME AFTERWARDS I NOTICE A 'PULSING' WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES. I CALLED THE SVC DEPT AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO RETURN. I WAS THEN TOLD I NEEDED NEW ROTORS EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD JUST DONE MY BRAKES. DRIVING HOME AFTER THIS VISIT MY CAR BEGAN STALLING WHEN I WOULD COME TO A STOP. IN THE TEN MINUTES IT TAKES ME TO GET HOME MY CAR STALLED 9 TIMES, AND BY THE TIME I GOT TO MY STREET THERE WAS SMOKE COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD. ON THIS VISIT TO THE SVC DEPT I WAS TOLD THE STARTER HAD FAILED AND NEED REPLACED AND THAT IT HAD RUINED THE BATTERY, SO THEY REPLACED BOTH. I DROVE THE CAR FOR A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS AND ON JULY 26 IT BEGAN MAKE A HEAVY TAPPING SOUND DURING ACCELERATION, BUT WOULD SUBSIDE WHEN IDLING, SO I MADE ANOTHER APPT. FOR JULY 30. ON THE MORNING OF JULY 27 I GOT IN MY CAR TO GO TO WORK AND WHEN THE ENGINE STARTED THERE WAS A 'CHIRPING ' SOUND AND THE TAPPING SOUND BECAME LOUDER AND MORE CONSTANT AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A RATTLING ALONG WITH THE 'CHIRPING ' SO I DROVE RIGHT TO MCCAFFERTY. I AM NOW BEING TOLD THAT I HAVE 'METAL SHAVINGS FLOATING AROUND IN THE BOTTOM OF THE ENGINE' AND THAT ' HYUNDAI HAS BEEN HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH THESE ENGINES'. SO NOW MY ENGINE IS BEING REPLACED.