I bought a hyundai accent 2007 stick shift from a dealer (mm auto). I drove and everything was good. Until 2 weeks later the check engine turned on. I told the dealer and the dealer said "oh its a bad sensor." I bought a scan tool but the scan tool wasn't reading the car. A week later on my way home from work my car started shutting down while I was driving and turned off completely. I tried starting it again but no luck it didn't want to turn on. You can hear the car cranking. I have no knowledge about cars and hope you can tell me what's wrong with it, because the dealer doesn't want to do anything even tho its under warranty for a limited of days. Love your videos
Sounds like a BHPH lot type of deal. It's a 15-year-old car from Hyundai's cheapest line. Not a good starting point.
Check the warranty carefully for duration and what it actually covers. You may well find that repairs are at "dealer discretion", but see what it says. If the warranty is still in force, the problem is covered, and the dealer refuses to do anything I'd report them to your state attorney general's office and take them to small claims court to recover the cost of the now-useless car. With a problem like this, dealing with an uncooperative and probably crooked dealership, you need to put the gorilla suit on.
In the meantime you might want to take the car to a good independent mechanic for evaluation. (This should have been done before purchase of course.)
What is BHPH?
I agree with chuck.
Just adding that, to make the legal option even more viable (, as I see it,) when you’re going to the dealership I’d document (if it’s legal where you live, in some states you can’t record audio without the other persons’ consent) that you have explained your issue, that it was at the time still under warranty, that the car does not work at all, and have them tell you that they are refusing to fix it.
Car dealerships are most often required to have bonds with the government - so you shouldn’t care if they “””don’t have the money”””, their bond that’s required for them to maintain a dealer’s license has way more than an ‘07 Elantra can cost.
@doc, "BHPH" == "Buy Here Pay Here" used car lots. In general these are the worst of the worst bottom feeders.
Return it to the dealership, a Hyundai that old that has no ECM communication is bound to be a total nightmare. If you can't get return, make them repair it until it has proper communication and runs well - It may take getting nasty but get what they owe you.
Hope you didn't pay too much for it.
Do you have any warranty (specifically: powertrain warranty) on the car when you bought it from the dealership? If so, take it back and have them repair it before the warranty time is over.
