The Hyundai i30 was awarded [Green] Car of the year in 2007.
I would love to agree with this but [un]luckily for us, the Hyundai i30 we received in Feb 2008 was a “special case”. From the day we brought it home, it was a mess. We took in into service 2 or 3 times within the first week and even after the 1000km routine service, we had to still take it back to service again!
As I write this, the car is yet again in service. And this time it was of great inconvenience because, besides dad’s work car, mum and I had to share the Elantra this morning. This meant I dropped mum off at 8am and then go off to work to hopefully be in time to pick up my mum from lunch. And to me, waking up that extra 30mins and just feeling the stress rolling off my mum was enough to irritate me.
I’ve now lost count of how many times the car has been in service and what upsets me the most is all the wasted time (and petrol) we lost because of this car being unfixable. The service people apparently know there’s something wrong with the Hyundai i30 but they don’t know what to do with it until the people in the East know.
SO, this means we’re going to be riding around for god-only-knows how long in a dodgy i30 that has the very good potential to just suddenly not work properly. HORAY? I think not.
Although, I am glad that the service people finally fixed up the sticking brakes after service number #. Let’s just say that I’m pretty sure the car, whether they fix it or not, has already made it’s mark on the environment. The amount of fuel we went through because we had to pretty much ‘floor it’ every time we changed gears was disturbing.
When people change up the gears, the car moves faster, but our ‘special case’ makes the car feels like we just moved down a gear. Just imagine this scenario combined with sticky brakes and like magic, that’s exactly how the car functioned when we first got it!
The only good thing I can say about this car is that WHEN it drives like it was designed to, it’s really smooth and the turbo rocks!
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