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I have a 2006 Santa Fe. As you may know, if no one is sitting in the front passenger seat the passenger side airbag is deactivated, and there is a light in the dashboard which tells you it is deactivated. When someone is sitting in the seat, it activates a sensor in the seat, the airbag is then activated and the light will then go out. I've noticed on several occasions.....I guess it happens about once a month, that someone will be sitting in the seat and the light will not go out indicating that the airbag is still deactivated. Only two people really sit in the this seat, my wife and my mother, and it has happened to both of them. At first I had them get out of the car and get back in which would make the light go out. Then one day when my wife was in the vehicle, and the deactivated airbag light was on, I pulled over shut off the engine, then turned it on again and the light went out. I took it to a Hyundai dealer and they said that they couldn't duplicate what happened and that they checked the computer and found nothing wrong. The next time that it happened I was near the dealer and took it in and showed them that the light was coming on. The serviceman said that he would check with Hyundai and see if there was any reports of this happening to someone else, of course he never got back to me. He also suggested that it may be my wife's body shape that was causing the problem and the way she sat in the seat caused the sensor not to activate. I might consider that a possibility, but like I said it's happened to both my wife and my mother who are two compeltely different body types. It seems to me that it's either a problem with the sensor not functioning properly when someone sits in the seat, or a problem with the computer not picking up the message from the seat that someone is sitting in it. The problem wouldn't be quite as bad if, in the daylight hours, when I usually drive, wouoldn't be so hard to see with the sun shining in the car, but I've ridden around for at least a half-hour or so before I noticed that light was still on with someone in the seat. Of course it probably means that the airbag for that seat isn't going to function, and I'd hate to think what might happen if I got into an accident. Any thoughts of what the problem might be? I'm making sure that I mention it every time I bring it in for service, becasue if they don't do anything, and so far they haven't.....and I do get into an accident and the airbag dosen't deploy when it should have,,,,,my attorney would be licking his lips in anticipation of a lawsuit. Thanks in advance.
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Replying to: rick998 (Dec 07, 2007 11:18 pm) |
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Thank you sir for your time and effort. I went to the second page, but was unable to find anything there pertaining to this problem.....I also didn't get anything back when I put the words that you suggested in search. I eventually did find a couple of posts dealing with the problem but they seemed to be in the 2007 models. (Of course I'm not familiar with this forum.....as you can see I've only posted once here, so maybe I'm not doing something right  ) But I will certainly mention replacing the weight sensor when I take the vehicle back in for service. Once again let me thank you......and hey......maybe you can answer my next question.
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Since your were nice enough to answer my first question, perhaps you could answer this one. Again, I have a 2006 Santa Fe with 17,000 miles, and noticed this happening a few months ago. I'll try my best to give a complete description of what the vehicle is doing. What is happening, is when I'm slowing down and the transmission is downshifting..... it seems that when it goes from 4th to 3rd gear the tachometer will jump around 800-900 rpms. It'll then go down to the lower gear. It dosen't jerk the car any when it does go down to the lower gear, and the only way that you'd even notice it is if you were looking at the tach when it happened, or heard the surge in the motor. The only other thing that I can compare it to is if you were driving a stick shift and pushed in the clutch without taking your foot off the gas....if that makes sense to you. One other thing that I've had happen and of course both things only happen occasionally..... I'll come to a stop at say a red light, and will be sitting there with my foot on the brake. All of a sudden the car will lurch a little bit forward and I have to press harder on the brake.....it's almost like another car comes up and taps you in the rear is the best way to describe it.....in fact when it first occurred that's what I thought happened, until I looked in my rearview mirror and no one was there. The second time it happened, I just blamed it on myself, thinking that I wasn't pressing the brake hard enough. The third time that it happened I was looking at the tachometer and noticed that the idle speed, when I stopped, was reading about 400-500 rpm's, where it usually reads 700-800 when at idle. While I was sitting there thinking "hummmm, that's funny" the idle speed jumped back up to it's normal speed, and that's when I got the same lurching movement that I experienced before. When I took the car for it's 15,000 mile service I told the service rep what the car was doing. They said that they couldn't duplicate the problem, and that when they put it on the computer it didn't show any problem. They did say that the vehicle has something in the computer that, (now I know that I'm not going to describe this properly so please bear with me) confroms the vehicle with the way that you drive (again forgive me because I can't recall off the top of my head what they call it), and they reset it. Since then I haven't really noticed it lurching.....but on two occassions I have noticed that it still reving up the rpms when it downshifts. Anyone else have the problem? Anyone have any idea what may be causing it? Anyone have any idea what they might do to fix it? Thank you in advance. P.S......if this helps. I've only noticed it when I've been driving around for awhile and the engine is hot.
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Replying to: rick998 (Dec 08, 2007 8:19 pm) As for the 2006 S.Fe transmission problem, sorry, I can't help. It could be umpteen things. You could try using the search again and see what comes up. As for "cannot duplicate" justification from service techs, I swear it's their first line of defense - we've all had that at some point. I assume you are still within warranty so you could try another dealer. Good luck. |
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the 2.7 has 115000 miles I dont know if the timing belt or tensioner has been replaced I will have it replaced immediately the engine sounds fine no miss heard or felt or excessive gas use what signs would indicate if the timing belt was or is stretched hate to put money in it if i missed something also would a ASC mechanic be qualified to do the work. Don
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Can anyone tell me where the fill location is on the rear differential I see the 24mm drain plug but not the refill. Thanks Don
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Replying to: don97 (Jan 06, 2008 6:45 am) |
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| I was originally looking at the 24 mm refill plug about half way up on the rear differential the drain plug is a 24 mm plug located on the bottom of the rear differential did not see it until used a jack to raise the car,This is not a star or hex Hope this helps someone else. Don97 | |
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I've been looking at '03 and' 04 Santa Fe's on cars.com. It looks like used models still retain a 5 yr/60,000 mile warranty if I remember the numbers correctly. Are there any hitches with that warranty? Does it have to have a proven service history from a Hyundai dealer? Do you have to buy used from a Hyundai dealer? I can spend about $11,000. I'm looking closely at an '03 4WD with the 2.7L V6 and ABS. I figure the 4WD might stick to the road better. Is the 4WD better to go with? This Santy has everything I wasnt except a sunroof. It seems the ones w/a sunroof I've seen on the Internet don't have 4WD.
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