Honest John Owners' Reviews » Hyundai » Hyundai i40 (2012 on) 5. 1.7 CRDi 115 Blue Drive Active 4dr. reviewed by Anonymous on 23 April 2022. 5. Overall rating. 5.
Launched in 2012, the Hyundai i30 offers genuine value for money in the crowded family hatchback sector. Available as a three-door and five-door hatch – and also an estate – the i30 rivals the likes of the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra, as well as the closely related Kia Cee’d in the battle of the long warranties.The car has done 50.000Km so far with zero issues, absolutely nothing has gone wrong with the car. There is a lot of space inside the car and the materials have aged well. The car is very easy on fuel if you know how to used the torque/power band correctly, i barely have rev it above 2000 rpm in city traffic and my avg. is 5.4L/100Km (52 MPG). The car itself is very impressive. She had an old style i10 previously and this is a big improvement. The auto box is not a true automatic it is an automated manual transmission which is quite sluggish but she is simply happy not to have a clutch pedal. My daughter’s 2009 Hyundai i30 developed a gearbox noise, which she reported at the main dealer 12 months ago. At the time the mechanic told her it was nothing and to ignore it. I drove the car today and in 20 yards told her that the clicking noise sounded like a bearing breaking up, probably on the first motion shaft in that it is input speed and goes when the clutch is depressed. The
Hyundai i30 - Breaking issue. So, about 2 months ago I started hearing a whirring noise coming from the breaks. So took it into the garage and they said it needed new front pads and discs.. so got them done but then the breaks started making an intermittent crunching/grinding noise when coming to a stop. So took the car back to the garage and
We had been looking forward to collecting our petrol ix20 after many happy years in a Modus. It promised and delivered front and rear head and leg room aplenty, a flexible and commodious boot - it delivered two to university including a full drum kit and rig. The petrol engine pulled from such low revs - behaving sweeter than the diesel.