Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly half a million vehicles in the U.S. over a fire risk.
The issue is deemed so serious that the automakers are telling affected owners to park their vehicle outside and away from buildings until a repair has been carried out.
The problem centers on a component inside the antilock braking system (ABS) that could short-circuit and cause a fire.
Hyundai, which owns 34% of Kia, has yet to work out the cause.
h/t roaddog
Misfiled, perhaps – these are just regular vehicles with a brake control problem. These are not electric cars.
The Lithium virus has jumped the shark with this new, Korean variant.
The Chevy Bolt recall is for LG Lithium batteries. Korean. Built by the ChiComs. The Koreans need new Electrical Engineering courses?
True – but they are short-circuiting and catching fire.
You don’t have to keep your gas guzzler parked outside because of a problem with the anti-lock brakes.
This!
Look at the list of models. None of these are electric or hybrid cars:
“Vehicles in the recall include the 2016-2018 Hyundai Santa Fe, 2017-2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe XL, and 2014-2015 Hyundai Tucson.
Also included are the 2014-2016 Kia Sportage and the 2016-2018 Kia K900 sedan.”
And a wonky electronic brake controller could indeed pose a fire risk.
All that said, I’m not particularly afraid of the Hyundai recall, even though I drive a different Hyundai model from one of those model years.
What does creep me out a little bit is the two Teslas parked in my condo parking garage right underneath the natural gas lines into the building. When those things go up things are going to get lit, as the kids these days say.
Aw crap.
Don’t own one.
Oh, sorry double-speak has fogged the old brain cells.
Right is illegal and wrong is not.
Cheap parts don’t work worth a shit.
Have the same problem with brake calipers that keep failing.
Just sent my son the link. He has a later model Sante Fe but I’m not breathing a sign of relief because he beat it by one year. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
See what I did there?
“In 2019, for example, Kia recalled 380,000 Soul vehicles over a possible piston-related failure that could have led to a connecting rod puncturing the engine block and causing engine oil to leak”
If this happens, the oil leak would be the least of your problems…
Who writes this stuff? Do they not know how an IC engine works?
Who writes this stuff? Millennials who have no interest in even getting a driver’s license!
“…could have led to a connecting rod puncturing the engine block and causing engine oil to leak”
I dunno, earlwer, back in the 70’s a buddy of mine & I punched a few conn rods through Ford FE blocks in pickup trucks. While we were standing there on the side of the road peering at the crankshaft through the hole we wuz always worried ’bout the engine oil, the tire pressure & whether in windshield wuz clean or not.
That’s hilarious. And the loss of engine oil often results in a loud thump.
I read somewhere that if you plug your electric car into the grid and the grid operator requires extra juice to maintain baseload they can use electric cars as battery storage and suck the power out of them instead of charging. Anyone happen to see that story?
story. not true.
https://www.virta.global/vehicle-to-grid-v2g
True. Not story.
And no lube.
How many millions of dollars did the US government fine Hyundai and Kia for poor quality control? Or was it hundreds of millions? Yeah – hundreds of millions. Why in hell would anyone want to buy one of these pieces of crap?
We need to stop referring to these new cars as electric cars. Electric cars are not new. These are Battery cars. They are essentially a half ton battery on wheels. When charged, they represent a lot of chemical energy awaiting release to electrical energy that requires stability to be safe. Gasoline only requires simple containment and isolation from combustion sources.
My subsidized lithium sled.