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...I amazed that this company just can’t figure it out...
Not that they can't, but they have other priorities: attracting more market share via added features, performance, efficiency and style. While all these attributes are great, they can't trump quality. Once they have fooled all their customers once, they will have a hard time fooling them again (one would think)!
Once they have fooled all their customers once, they will have a hard time fooling them again (one would think)!
I’m pretty sure other manufacturers, have all the power and features that a modern would Hyundai have. But I think a big difference is that Hyundai and Kia are often usually cheaper than a comparable model. So perhaps they get that same buyer on price once again. Kinda like GM in the 90s. But I do agree, owners eventually have to realize they’re being fooled
Originally Posted by Wilson2000
Not that they can't, but they have other priorities: attracting more market share via added features, performance, efficiency and style. While all these attributes are great, they can't trump quality. Once they have fooled all their customers once, they will have a hard time fooling them again (one would think)!
But how is it possible to design something this poorly?
a hard hit could cause the back cover of the power seat switch to dislodge, potentially forcing the seat motor to run non-stop.
But how is it possible to design something this poorly?
Simply by not assigning resources to testing, refining, troubleshooting it. I remember a decade or so back when Hyundai and Kia vehicles had even more of a reputation for poor steering and handling. When they contracted with Lotus to tune the suspension of the 2015 Genesis (now G80), a car mag reported that the company's usual practice was to assign the equivalent of 1-1/2 engineers to the entire job of developing a new model's suspension behavior. Contrast that witth the 2010 Prius, where the vehicle as a whole was touched by 200 engineers.
When you've got, for example, an ABS wheel sensor so carelessly developed that its vendor doesn't even know how to stop it from shorting out and starting a fire while the car is shut off, so their recall "fix" is simply to put a lower-amp fuse in it so that when it fails again, it'll get its voltage cut off before it torches the whole car. That's simple inattention to detail. It's the old GM Way: "This is good enough." And with their sales steadily rising for a decade, it has been—from a business perspective if not a mechanical or moral one.
03-24-24 | 08:02 PM
