I have 40K miles on my car 2001 Elantra. The dealer is asking following
things to be done; -
1) Change transmission oil =$170
2) Change A/c belt = $117

HELP!!!..today while making only left turns and braking, it sounded like
something rattling or a squeeking sound coming from the left rear tire..I
had the sonata at the dealer 2 weeks ago & he said that I soon would need
brakes,,could this be the problem..I have an appt. at a ...

Now have 4000 miles on my Sonata, 2000 miles from home, and at least 100
miles from the nearest Hyundai dealer. Notice my left front rotor is
scored for about an inch in the center of the outboard side of the rotor.
Soft part of rotor? hard part in disc pad?  All other rotors nice ...

I don't think we have Autozone up here, so does anyone know of a cheap
place to get an error code read?
Chris

I have a Sonata 2002 LX, with  a 'check engine light' problem. I took
it to Autozone, the codes were P0715 and P1529. Based off what I'd read
here, I bought an input speed sensor and replaced it. There was no
problem for a day or 2. Now again, it throws a check engine light. What

Has anyone had a problem with their 04 elantras steering wheel
crumbling apart? I have had so manety problems and even in the process
of sueing I cant get help from the dealer and they cant even fix the
airbag on passenger side every time I bring it in it sits and they say

Right, so I just pulled off all of my plug wires to change them, but i
forgot to label which goes where.  Does anybody know?  This is the 1.5l
motor.

Things are definitely looking up in the mileage department with the
warmer weather.  I just got my second tankful of 31+ MPG.  I got exactly
31 today and my last tank was 31.02.  It looks like the change to
synthetic oil cost me 0.02 MPG.  :-)  I couldn't resist....

The "Air bag" alarm light comes on again and again. Any ideas, what to
check and correct, instead of going to dealer.
Thanks
Deepak

I disabled the annoying chime that sounds when the the driver's seat
belt is unfastened.  It required a T10 torx screwdriver to remove the 2
screws holding the cover on the seat belt buckle receptacle.  There are
2 wires, one blue and one yellow, that are soldered onto a small piece

Looks to me like they borrowed a LOT of the engineering, hardware, etc. from
the newly redesigned Kia Sedona.  I don't believe that is, at all, a bad
thing.
Tom Wenndt

The rear brakes make a sanding sound on first operation and sometimes
it makes a louder sound after I release the parking brake and start
rolling. The loud noise is as if the springs did not release the
brakes completely. It does this only when it is humid so it may be

True?
Care to speculate or tell why?

The handbook for my 2002 XG350 states that the service interval for timing
belt is 60,000 miles and then there is as asterisk by it (*) stating that
this service is recomended but not necessary in California.  Anyone know
what this is all about?  All I have to do is move to ...

I took my 2006 Sonata to the dealer this morning for the first oil
change since I bought the car.  Fortunately this was a freebie in that
this was included when I bought the car, but the cost for the oil
change would have been $39.79   They also wanted to charge an