Just adding to the list of Sante Fe engine failures.

Driving Sante Fe on highway at regular speeds, had to coast to next exit and pull off. Engine, oil and battery light all on, no rpms at all and gas pedal was dead. Turned it off and back on, no issue there. Drove to a garage, error code indicating low battery voltage, odd but ok replaced battery as it's the first time I've had to replace the battery on a 2014 Sante Fe.

Go to drive home with family in car, notice a ticking noise. Pull off at an exit and into a parking lot, try to put it in reverse to go into a parking spot and it dies. Had to push it into the parking spot. Engine turns over but sounds like death with a knocking noise.

Towed to Dealership, produced all the maintenance records and within 48hrs received a call that Hyundai is replacing the Long Block. Rental of car included, should be done within a week.

Hopefully this helps others.

I owned a Sonata that gave me the exact same issue and they replaced the engine (new) under warranty. Now showing my loyalty again bought a Santa Fe Limited (not cheap) and have loved it everyday. Until... I was driving to work two weeks ago and my car completely shuts down with zero warnings at all. The engine was knocking a couple weeks prior but so sporadic. The vehicles completely stalled out on me with every light in the vehicle turning on and leaving me on the side of the road. Still to this day will not start and am being told they will not warrant "their Issue". Someone needs to stand up and do whats right regardless of engine size. This is a known issue and at the dealership my vehicle is at states they have 10 issues of the exact same problem waiting for new engines. Please someone do what is right.

We were driving down the highway when the engine just died - we were able to coast to the side of the road thankfully to call for a tow truck but it was totally dead - giving it gas did nothing the engine was totally locked up. We had it taken to a repair shop and they removed the belt and said the engine would not even turn it was completely locked up.

A year ago I had taken the car in for a recall inspection because there were incidents of metal shavings getting into the engine and causing damage - they inspected it and said nothing was wrong but it appears they missed something. It has been at the dealership ever since and they say because of the holiday they don't have an answer back from Hyundai on what if anything they are going to do but a new engine would run like $9,000 and that is nuts for an issue that was clearly a manufacturing defect and one they know about or they would not have issued the recall!

Hoping they hurry up and tell me what they plan to do because I need a vehicle for work!

Coming back from NY to Toronto, my home on June 9th, along with my wife and 4 months old baby - while crossing NJ, the car started slowing down although it was driving really well prior to that and I didn't see any signal or felt anything weird. Eventually, it came to a stop and it won't start again.

I called Hyundai Road Side assistance, and after a number of attempts, I got someone who asked me to wait 2 hours till tow truck can come to take me to nearest dealership. Couple of things to note: the 1800... number was routing to USA based call center and they had no idea how to transfer me to Canadian call center for Hyundai. After coming back to Canada, when I called same number, they told me that, my coverage with them ended 2 weeks before the incident and they didn't send any help to rescue me (?) They can't do much and they never let me know that my coverage ended with them. (I'm going to add some part from my second complain here as I'm about to add another complain that this car again stalled on August 7th after the installation of new engine-within a month) - I called Hyundai Road Side assistance on August 8th as I found no coolant but their answer was that, my coverage expired May 31st, and since then they didn't help me (?). I've always taken care of my car with my dealership and it shouldn't run out of coolant. Resulting, next day stall again on a red-light with my 6 months baby at the back seat.

Ok, Let's get back to June 9th incident - after I was being taken to dealership at NJ, and calling insurance and Hyundai care - multiple times - I was told to get a hotel for the night and get a car rental from somewhere and drive back home, Toronto. I had to do all those by myself and wasn't easy with my family.

When I came back, I called Hyundai Care, and they said, there is nothing they can do and I have to contact the dealership at NJ and get updated when it will be ready for me and that, I have to drive back at my own expense to bring it back. I didn't get rental or any other help from them. I never called them back. I tried to get the reimburse from Hyundai Road Side but it went in vain. July 8th I went to NJ and drove back.

There are lots of other incidents that I'm not mentioning here but it was a terrible experience. Imagine, you and your family on the I80 and the car stops - !

The NJ dealer was nice to me and I won't complain about them.

This problem is continuation of my previous complain that this car stopped on I80 while my family was on-board and we were coming back to Toronto from NY on June 9th.

It took the dealership few weeks, and July 8th, I went to pick it up and drove back. FYI- I didn't get any rental or any other help from Hyundai Care.

Now, within a month, Aug 7th, it stopped again on a red-light and this time, my 6 month old baby was with me. The car didn't give me any signal that it will stop or anything such! It won't start again and it was scary. I had to call my friend to help who drove my baby back home. When, I took the car at the dealership, after investigation, they confirmed its again 'Engine Blown'. FYI - This is a new engine since July 8th, so within a month, the new GDI engine stopped. They are saying that, its a fault from previous mechanic who didn't set up the coolant line properly with the engine (!) Really?

I don't know what else to say here and what I can do about it! One last thing: When I bought this car after few recommendation from my friends, I was really happy and also promoted Hyundai to my friends. I took this on big trips too and after the first incident, I was still their fan - thinking that, this engine blown may be a one off thing.. but having this for the second time (both time I had my family/baby with me) I'm now scared!

Just purchased a used Hyundai Santa Fe GLS model (Black, Grey) with 303 liter engine and fully loaded vehicle. Loved the car on the web site (CarMax) and decided to purchase (because my other vehicle (2001 Honda Odyssey) finally developed a transmission failure after 300K miles and 16 years of service. The Hyundai Santa Fe drives and handles well, overall, but I had three terrifying incidents on the first day driving the car to work in rush hour traffic. The Hyundai just stalled, always when moving to a red light and/or in stop and go traffic. Seems consistent with engaging the brake pedal to slow down or stop. When the engine stalls, there is no warning that the engine has stopped working. No alarms, chimes or lights. It just loses power. Pressing on the accelerator is now affected and the steering is compromised or non existent. The car either becomes a missile to those in front of you or an obstacle to those behind you, and either way, someone can get seriously hurt or even killed. The only option is to touch the start button to turn the car off (this tells you that the car never truly turned itself off, it just stalled into sleep). Then you must put the car shifter into park and restart the car, at which time, power returns and you can drive onward, praying that the event won't continue to happen again (which it always does at the worst times). I didn't know this issue existed with Hyundai engines until it happened to me. It is so serious that I began looking at the car complaint boards to see if others are having the issue and what I've found is that people around the world are making the same issue noted, and neither the Hyundai Corporation, nor the dealers who sell these cars are taking action to correct the problem to satisfy the consumer. So I have posted a formal complaint to the NTSSA (The federal transportation safety web site) asking them to investigate consumer concerns over the willful complicity between Hyundai and the dealers who continue to sell these poorly designed cars to the public. Hyundai is a safety risk. Avoid these cars if you can.

I had numerous problems with this car... focusing on this one. I drove back from a long day in Kelowna to Kamloops, BC. After Vernon I noticed that my gas pedal wouldn't react. I drove a bit over to the side while I did the pedal got hard and didn't respond, my steering wheel locked up and the whole car stank. I turned on the warning lights. Tried to get my phone to call help - no phone reception no cell service....

Took my sweater of to clean my lights , so cars can clearly see my warning lights...as the snow was melting and the roads made my car very dirty. Packed the most important stuff - was scared as it smelled bad and hitch hiked to the next town Falkland. Called the Automobile Club they said they would just tow me 25 km or miles it would be around 82 on way ... and I am about 8 km closer to Vernon and they have to tow me to Vernon.

OMG what to do .. I called Dons towing and they said they will pick me up and bring my car to Hyundai in Kamloops. Still waiting at the Ranch Cafe in Falkland 4 hours later the tow truck picks me up, we drive to my car .... Thursday night. I am home..... Friday I am calling my boss if he can pick me up to work. I call Hyundai tell them about my car.... they ask me if I purchased extended warranty.... I didn't. They said they can't start anything before I have all my service receipts with them.... at this time it was Friday afternoon and I had all but one with them.

They also said to me at this point that they wouldn't pay for a rental car.... I felt very depressed and disappointed...I got them the one missing service receipt Friday late afternoon. I was very disappointed I had not missed a single service and I got treated like I did something wrong....

After sharing my story with a friend, about a week later, he said I should call a different dealer ship. They helped me and even said that they involved Hyundai Canada. I received a call the next day Friday and the service manager called me and said that they have decided to pay for my rental car...

I haven't heard back for over a week - I finally called and asked if they have an update. They said yes it is the engine the whole engine is shredded.... I heard from Kelowna that they have the problem with 7 other models from the same Series. I am in my rental car (what is very inconvenient since 4 weeks) no skiing, my son can't drive it and I can't take my samples to my clients as the car is to small. .... I am very happy to have a car after all. Even if we have to make sacrifices to our live and work. Last week they told me that it can take another 6 weeks as I get a brand new engine (from Korea) and today they called me and told me that they might get one in this week from Toronto. I am not happy and don't feel comfortable with the whole situation. Please advise what to do.... Any suggestions. Also if this happens to so many cars, why don't they recall it and put peoples lives at risk.

This same problem (loss of power) first happened prior to 10,000 miles but than it was occurring at slower speeds. It did show a code. I took it into the dealer for service. They told me that the software had the fuel pressure set too low. The problem seemed to disappear and they cleared the code.

Today I was passing a large truck on a two lane highway. Just as I was even with the long truck, power suddenly disappeared. I must have been going around 80mph. I was able to brake and get over to the shoulder. I killed the engine and restarted it and the problem disappeared. I called the dealer and told the service manager about what happened and that there was no code showing. All he told me was that it just cleared itself. Duh! This is the sort of thing that could get somebody killed.

Coming back home from the above trip, I got to thinking about duplicating what happened so I got up to cruising speed at 65mph and than suddenly accelerated. At just about 80mph or maybe a little over, the engine cut out and I started slowing. As it started slowing to around 50mph, I pushed down on the accelerator again and nothing happened. I pulled over, killed and restarted the engine and the problem went away.

I repeated this twice more (same trip) and got the same results each time. At around 80 to 85mph, power was lost. I placed a call to the service manager at the dealer. I am now waiting for him to return my call.

Again, I just want to emphasize that this sort of thing will get somebody killed.

Update from Aug 11, 2015: As of 10 August 2015, the vehicle is in the dealer service center and they provided me with a loaner vehicle. On the way to the dealer that morning, I duplicated the loss of power problem once again. Once arriving at the dealer, the service manager duplicated the engine shutdown problem by running it up to 80+ mph. The manager thinks the problem is caused by low rail pressure (gas line) at that speed but they need time to evaluate it. They did say that they have not encountered this problem previously although it has obviously been reported for older Santa Fe vehicles by others which can be found by searching "loss of power" and "Hyundai Santa Fe" on the Internet. According to the service manager, the engine service light came on and indicated a failure code which did not happen for me. We are now in a waiting mode.

Update from Aug 13, 2015: I had a call from the service manager this morning (August 13) and he informed me that they had determined that the problem seemed to be the double walled fuel line coming from the high pressure pump to the low pressure pump in the tank. They ordered the new line and it just arrived. They will be putting it in along with a new high pressure fuel pump. They think that the double wall line got kinked in shipping to the factory for vehicle assembly causing a flow restriction. Since junk could have got into the high pressure pump, they decided it would be best to replace the pump. We should know in a few days if this fixes the problem.

I purchased a 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 1 week ago today. It has 450 miles on it. I was driving home on the highway at 70 mph and the whole car went dead. It totally shut off. I drifted over to the shoulder and fortunately it restarted. I drove it straight to the dealer where they have said that they have never heard of this. However, there are pages and pages of the same type of problem on the the internet. I called the manager and told them that I do not want this car. I will never feel safe or have piece of mind. It's totally unreliable and that they should take it back since I've only had it a week. I was told that they won't take it back. I am willing to buy another Sonata, but I will not take this car back especially since there really is no explanation for why this happens. California (Corporate) told me that there have only been recalls on 2010. 2011 and 2012's for the same problem. They claim that it's the engine control module. I just don't want do be killed driving this car. Somebody needs to make this right.