I’ve got a 2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4L with 67,000 miles. It burns about a quart of oil every 2000 miles, it has a little bit of a timing chain rattle, and the transmission slips in cold weather. The dealer says the timing chain and oil consumption is normal and were unable to find anything wrong with the transmission. Carmax offered me $12,000 for it, I don’t know if I should get rid of this car or not, because I’ve got about 33,000 miles of warranty left and I’ve heard so many good things about them, I’ve also have read that people usually get 200,000+ miles out of them before major repairs. What is your opinion Scotty? Thank you.
Get rid of it. Other vehicles routinely go hundreds of thousands of miles without developing those kind of symptoms. It's pretty appalling that a car with only 67K miles is already falling apart.
It is. I personally would be happy with 90 - 100,000 miles but this start at 40 something thousand and they said it’s not significant enough come back later.
At the rate that car is going you'll be lucky if it's still running at all at 100K miles. Unfortunately Hyundai/Kia quality has really gone into the toilet since around 2010 and they always try to weasel out of what they advertise as "America's Best Warranty".
Toyota, Honda, Mazda, even Subaru are overall much better vehicles, though before buying you always want to check on model-specific problems. (Even the better brands put out turkeys once in a while.) If buying used always have a mechanic check it out to make sure you're not getting something that was flooded, wrecked, or otherwise abused.
Either go get your engine fixed (what you said here is NOT normal at all) and your transmission fixed by the dealer under warranty.
or get rid of it ASAP.
When you buy a Hyundai or any other cheaply put together car, you got to know how to stand up for your self and get what you paid for out of the dealer.
In terms of the engine, I took it to two different places and they both said they see this daily and that Hyundai hasn’t been approving repairs to them because it’s so common. They said they were unable to duplicate the issue with the transmission and therefore can’t make a repair.
I remember having a similar issue with my new Renault (Meganè 1st gen, back in the early 2000s) dealer (refusing to fix my transmission stuttering in reverse), I went to my grandma (an attorney at law) and she filed such a suit they settled with me for a new transmission, free service, fees, and an additional 5 year warranty.
With Hyundai I once had an accent, it would have a delayed shift into reverse, the dealer said “it’s normal” although I’m a transmission mechanic and I know it just needs a valve body.
So I went to my local race track with my Hyundai Accent (instead of my regular Volvo.) they ended up replacing the whole unit as the friction packs got fried from the valve body not working correctly.
Luckily nowadays I buy cars from my local dealer that I’m in excellent relations with and when replacing my clutch pack under extended warranty they even went as far as replacing the seals and the “life time” fluid - great guys.
That’s a lot of burnt oil for a fairly new vehicle with low mileage, yike! Get rid of it!
That is not normal at all to burn oil like that so soon, and since the dealers and Hyundai are not helping, I would seriously look at dumping the car. Here on the forum we advise against buying Hyundai Motor Group products due to their poor quality, and apparently their famous 10 year, 100,000 mile warranty is useless because they claim “Oh, that’s normal.”
