Nice Quiet Comfortable Ride
I like the styling better than the new body, so I am glad we bought when we did. When shopping for a new vehicle, the things important to us were all satisfied by the Hyundai Santa Fe at the best price point. Our criteria were based on long distance travel. Smooth ride, adjustable lumbar support, quiet, handles well. My only disappointment is in the safety/convenience technology. My position is that a convenience feature is only a feature if it works 100% of the time. Short of that it is just an aggravation. The two most prominent examples of this are the rear hatch and the door locks. The hatch does not reliably open when you stand behind it. However, if you press the button, it knows you have the key and opens the hatch, so it's not a proximity issue. Other times I will walk along side the vehicle and the hatch will open when I don't want it to. When using the touch sensor on the door handle to lock the doors, I can never be sure it's actually locked. It makes a click, indicating it sensed the touch, but then when I go back to open the door, I can hear it lock when I touch it. At this point, the only thing you can do is dig around in your pocket for the fob, since it won't respond at all to touch. Another issue is that the doors will not all unlock when the car is turned off, no matter how I make the settings. As a result, I have to use the manual unlock button to allow access to the rear if I need to take somehting with me. When I do that, I can no longer lock the car with the button on the door. If I set it to unlock when I turn off the ignition, then I have to put it into park first, which means I have to stop. The engine turns off when I stop, then right back on when it's put into park, then off again by pushing the button on the dash. None of this makes sense to me. If the car is locked and I walk up to it with the key, it should unlock when the door button is touched. Nothing else should matter. If it is unlocked and I am outside with the key in my pcoket, then touching the button should cause it to lock. Period. Again, nothing else should matter. But it does. I have a spreadsheet with all the issues I have found if anyone is interested. There are too many to detail here.
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