Automotive Adventures
Sep. 27th, 2018 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mama_kestrelYesterday my grand plan was to take my son to class, come home, and go back to sleep.
No plan survives first contact with reality. At 8:30, my beloved spouse, theoretically on his way to a mediation an hour an a half east of us, sent me a text message indicating that he would need rescue after I dropped our kid off. It seems his car died a rather thorough death on the toll road, though it did so in a fashion that at least permitted him to limp into the rest stop a mile further on and park before it quit completely. So off I went, on rescue intent, while he started his mediation by telephone. We arranged for the car to be towed to the nearest Hyundai dealership, called and told them it was coming, and headed home to wait for them to call and tell us what was wrong with it. Our best guess was transmission, and if that had proved to be the case, we were replacing the car.
It does not need a new transmission.
It needs a new engine. At 130,000 miles.
The good news is that Hyundai is providing same. See, apparently Hyundai Sonatas from between 2011 to 2014 were subject to catastrophic engine failure, so much so that it became the subject of a class action law suit. (Who knew? Not us!) The settlement requires Hyundai to replace the engines and provide a rental vehicle until they can do so. Spouse's car is slightly beyond the mileage limit for the settlement, so the dealer had to ask first, but the company agreed to do it regardless. I suspect that lawsuit stung them pretty badly in the PR department. So there's a rental car in the driveway until the end of October, after which Spouse will have, as he put it, a beat up old car with a brand new engine. We can deal with that.
No plan survives first contact with reality. At 8:30, my beloved spouse, theoretically on his way to a mediation an hour an a half east of us, sent me a text message indicating that he would need rescue after I dropped our kid off. It seems his car died a rather thorough death on the toll road, though it did so in a fashion that at least permitted him to limp into the rest stop a mile further on and park before it quit completely. So off I went, on rescue intent, while he started his mediation by telephone. We arranged for the car to be towed to the nearest Hyundai dealership, called and told them it was coming, and headed home to wait for them to call and tell us what was wrong with it. Our best guess was transmission, and if that had proved to be the case, we were replacing the car.
It does not need a new transmission.
It needs a new engine. At 130,000 miles.
The good news is that Hyundai is providing same. See, apparently Hyundai Sonatas from between 2011 to 2014 were subject to catastrophic engine failure, so much so that it became the subject of a class action law suit. (Who knew? Not us!) The settlement requires Hyundai to replace the engines and provide a rental vehicle until they can do so. Spouse's car is slightly beyond the mileage limit for the settlement, so the dealer had to ask first, but the company agreed to do it regardless. I suspect that lawsuit stung them pretty badly in the PR department. So there's a rental car in the driveway until the end of October, after which Spouse will have, as he put it, a beat up old car with a brand new engine. We can deal with that.
