Comment by rr808
19 days ago
Japanese and Chinese are very different buckets. What is the long term reliability of Chinese cars? Nobody knows.
19 days ago
Japanese and Chinese are very different buckets. What is the long term reliability of Chinese cars? Nobody knows.
I wouldn't be too concerned.
Hyundai used to be synonymous with "garbage".
People who have purchased Hyundai/Kia products w/ the GDI Theta II engine would, perhaps, take issue with "used to be".
One engine issue due to a manufacturing flaw shouldn't be enough to counter their massive change in produt lines over the years
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https://www.dashboard-light.com/reports/Hyundai.html
For what it's worth, this puts Hyundai around "industry average", above Acura, Audi, BMW, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan.
Below Chevrolet, Honda, Porsche, Toyota.
Hyundai is fairly unreliable. They were up and coming back in the 2000s and to some extent the 2010s, but their reliability has been quite poor in the past 5-10 years and I really wouldn't recommend a Hyundai to anyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge
Yeah maybe I'll get a Chinese car in 50yrs
Anecdotal, but I'm extremely disappointed with my Hyundai Tucson purchase. It's the first car I've owned. The drive train is gone on it and the mechanic says it's a common issue. Only 140k on it, 2019. It's hard to believe I paid so much for it and got so little use.
140,000 miles is a lot of use in 7 years. "expected" design life of cars can be 10yrs/100,000 miles. Sorry to hear about your drivetrain issues. I don't know about the Tucson in particular, but many manufacturers are lying about the transmissions having "lifetime" fluid when the transmission manufacturers themselves recommend fluid changes around 60-80k. But if you don't change it, yes technically the car will make it to 100k, but then no shop will touch the transmission fluid for fear of wrecking it.