God damn car. I think the dealer fucked me.

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lindseyp1977

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Alright CopyLifted, I concede, when you said there was a reason they sold me a $10,000 car for six grand, you were right.

Two days ago, I was driving on the LIE and my check engine light came on. I got home, Eric whipped out his OBDII reader and got error code P1191 - ETS (Electronic Throttle System) Limp Home Mode ON.

Makes sense, I lost 50% of my power. Now, the light is off.

The engine has always idled so rough I could feel it in the steering wheel, and around 2,000 RPM it's like I got obese people fucking in my engine bay.

After heavy revving I always get this weird whine from my engine bay.

There is lots of wind rushing around the driver side door at 50+ MPH.

There is also a blown right tweeter.

And I'm positive that the front left brake rotor was warped when I got the car - It's intolerable now.

Thank God all this shit is covered under my extended warranty, except for the tweeter.

What really scares me is that the transmission fluid is grey. Not blood red, not reddish gray, but grey. If there is one thing I know about the Hyundai XG350L, it needs clean trans fluid more than anything else and it gets dirty very quickly. Not doing so will cause your trans to take a shit below 100K miles.

The previous owner did NOTHING to maintain this car, I bet. I am going to buy authentic Hyundai transmission fluid and some Pennzoil Full Synthetic and have Eric change my fluids.

I truly love my car but I'm pissed they sold me something they knew had issues. She only has 66,996 miles on her - When I bought her she had 64,012.

She's going in Monday. With all this bullshit I bet I'll be rocking Mommy's Outback for a week :thumbsdn:.
 
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Seriously though, I know the feeling. In fact, I think my thread title was, "My GodDAMN car" or something like that. Hahaha.

Won't be buying ANYTHING from Craigslist again. :tongue:
 
When you buy a used car you buy used problems as well.

Seriously though, there wasn't one thing on that list of yours that would even warrant pissing about. Be glad any of it was covered by your warranty. Most of it is standard maintenance.
 
What gets me pissed is that it's Certified Used and there shit wrong with it outta the door. If this was some random guy on CraigsList I wouldn't care that much.

It's deceptive. Did I mention the parking brake was somewhat stuck when I test drove it? I asked them to fix that before I bought it, and they did.

I know these are minor quibbles. And I'm fully aware that I'm bitching about minor shit.

It's the fucking concept of being lied to. How the fuck did their mechanics not notice the rough engine idle? This is, technically, an entry level luxury car. So why is the engine bucking around like a four cylinder with AIDS?

I'm pissed because I'm going to be without a car for a few days, maybe even a week. I'm so fucking reliant on this thing it's not funny.

Now I gotta take time without a car because some fucking asshole lied to me.
 
Take the bus, foo. Ride around with the bus trolls. That'll learn ya. On my bus, there are two retard couples that make out.

Did you buy a car with a knock/rattle in the engine? :lol:
 
Man if our bus had retarded people on it I would TOTALLY ride that shit every day. They give the best reviews on the new Pokemon games.
 
I hope your warranty takes care of it.

It's not a luxury car, though. It has the very cheapest luxury features (wood trim, stereo, etc) to make you feel like it's a luxury car. It's tin everywhere that matters though.

Please realize that ASAP.
 
The automotive reviewers listed it as an entry level, some listed it as near luxury.

Yeah I'm happy my warranty takes care of this but this shit should NOT be present on a certified used car. Especially the brake rotor and rough running engine...
 
You can gift-wrap a turd and it's still a turd.

Certified used is a joke; yeah, it's been owned by someone before you. Don't trust any 'certified used' label to tell you more than that. You saw the fake wood trim and got all googly-eyed over the luxury looks. Happens to all of us at some point.
 
If you see a car at the dealer that is listed for less than the blue book value, and you buy it, your only getting what you deserve.

Your problems sound like:

Bad engine mount
Burnt out intake senser
Broke harmonic ballincer
Over stressed trans


Take your car to a smaller shop, and have them flush everything. Trans, engine oil, coolent. For the love of hell, didn't you take it to a shop OTHER than the dealer to get it checked out? Take it to the dealer to have them do the work under warenty, but take it to other places that don't have to worry about selling you a fucking car to find out if you have problems.

If your trans fluid is grey, with only a hint of red, you have problems. If its passed that, darker or not relay a red color, your going to be needing a new trans. That color is the clutch matieral. There are ~3 disks with half a millimeter if matieral on them per gear, and ~5 quarts of oil. Take that into account when you look at that fluid. If it is realy as bad as you say it is, it is allready failing, and is only going to strand you somewhere. Start saving, you are looking at a $2000 repair, and don't give me any lip about a fucking warinty.



Why are you finding out what the fluids look like now rather than BEFORE your stuck with a $6000 boat anchor?
 
Did you READ what the Hyundai certification entails? Some manufacturers certify a car if it passes a simple 20 tests. Hyundai checks 150 things.

If you HAD you'd know that the car didn't qualify for the Hyundai certification program. It had too many miles.

Here's a quick summary

When you don't do your homework, you end up failing.

You bought a used car and didn't check the transmission fluid: fail
You bought a used car with what you THINK is a bad rotor: fail
You haven't CHECKED the rotor: fail
You bought a car that idled badly and didn't wonder why: fail

You bitch about being lied to but you BOUGHT a used car! Buying used means you ARE being lied too. Each and every fucking time.

"She only drove it to the grocery store and church." (Right, which is why it has 20,000 miles over average on it.

"It's never been in an accident." (You mean while you were driving it right?)

"I changed the fluids religiously." (You mean you prayed that some random stranger did it for you most of the time?)

You should have taken everyone else's advice Descent. We all told you that your first car should be a $1,000 pile of shit. That way when it turned out to be a pile of shit you wouldn't be out $6,000 and you'd know what to look for in your next car. But instead of taking YEARS of experience and advice from those that came before you, you insisted you knew better.

Rule of thumb: When everyone around you thinks what you're doing is a bad idea, it's a bad idea.
 
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