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Hyundai Elantra Basic Maintenance Questions

29 messages,  Last post on Nov 28, 2011 at 5:52 PM

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#26 of 29 Re: 2011 Elantra Oil Change Interval [fushigi] by mikeystoy5

Nov 11, 2011 (11:53 am)

Replying to: fushigi (Nov 11, 2011 6:27 am)
Just want to mention one thing concerning oil changes an especially oil filters. Most of the after market oil filters, which do ok, don't have a relief vavle in the oil filter. The purpose of this vavle is to retain oil in the filter. What can happen with out this valve, is that on some of the engines, all of the oil drains back into the oil pan, so when you start it up, it takes a few seconds to get circulated through the engine. After time, you can have lifters starting to tick, premature bearing wear, or even worse. That orange filter is one of the worse you can use, in fact, at one time years ago, Chrsler stated in their owners manual, if you use one of those, your warranty is null and void. If most people were smart they would go an but the filters at the dealer and get whoever to use them when you having it serviced at your favorite repair shop. That 98 cent oil filter they sell for $6.99 or whatever, is about as cheap as you can get. You need to cut one of those apart and you will see what I'm talking about.

#27 of 29 Re: No spare! [sarah2175] by sniperlg

Nov 28, 2011 (5:30 pm)

Replying to: sarah2175 (Jul 01, 2011 7:46 pm)
I had a similar experience of my 2011 Elantra. I had a blow out in the interstate. It took the tow truck 1.75 hours to come. When my car was towed to the nearest dealer I was told that there was not one dealer stocked my tires in the whole state. So I had to take off another day off work. I called Hyundai and was told that it was not Hyundai problems because they did not manufacture the tires. However, they chose these tires for the car.

#28 of 29 Re: No spare! [sniperlg] by wallywanna

Nov 28, 2011 (5:52 pm)

Replying to: sniperlg (Nov 28, 2011 5:30 pm)
Hyundai "investigated" my tire problem. Wear out at 12000 miles was perhaps caused by "hard driving" per the dealer. Actually funny if it hadn't cost me $700 to replace 4 tires.

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