1 year and 3 days after purchase the main electrical harness went bad.
3 days passed when the lemon law would have forced Hyundai to buy back my lemon of a car, the main electrical harness went out and it took almost 2 months in total and three service visits to replace. Now at least they did supply me with a car, much smaller than the Santa Fe and never reimbursed me for the worse gas mileage the car got than my hybrid, but they did supply me with one. The whole dash had to be removed plus the front seats. The driver’s side door has some scratches and so does the dash, but they refuse to do anything about it. Since than, the Santa Fe has had one occasion when the battery went dead for no reason, about 1 out of every 10 times after unlocking the car the driver seat will not move back up automatically and about half the time the fingerprint reader will not register fingerprints. Can’t wait to see what will go bad in the future, especially since the dash has been torn apart 3 times in its first year.