The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe range of configurations is currently priced from $48,989.
Carsguide Senior Journalist Laura Berry had this to say at the time: The Hyundai Santa Fe Calligraphy Hybrid and Kia Sorento GT-Line Hybrid are both good value for money, plush, practical and super fuel efficient.
You can read the full review here.
The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe carries a braked towing capacity of up to 2500 Kg, but check to ensure this applies to the configuration you're considering.
It really doesn’t matter how fast you’re driving when a timing chain or timing belt breaks. If the engine is an interference design, then this failure has possibly turned the rest of the engine to junk. That’s because the valves and pistons have tried to occupy the same space at the same time, and widespread internal damage is the usually outcome.
From what I can gather, the V6 engine in your car is indeed an interference design, so the damage is possibly terminal. You could remove the cylinder head(s) to check, but if the engine has locked up, there’s a fair chance you’ll need to either rebuild the engine or replace it with a different one. You may also find that the cost of these repairs will be greater than the market value of the vehicle itself. At that point, you need to decide whether to repair it or start again with a new vehicle.
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A modern automatic transmission is a very complex piece of equipment with a whole bunch of parts that have to be talking to each other for it to work properly. Your best plan of attack is to have the vehicle inspected by a transmission specialist who is familiar with this transmission and should be able to diagnose the fault.
But it sounds like there’s something broken or loose inside that is not allowing the engine’s power to be transferred to the car’s wheels. This could be anything form an input or output shaft, a clutch assembly, torque converter or even the gearsets themselves. Perhaps the fault is in the valve body (the part that actually selects each gear) but until it’s torn down and inspected, you won’t know what’s going on.
The other major cause of a car not moving when it’s in gear is that there’s a broken driveshaft or CV joint. The symptoms can be very similar, so check the whole driveline before committing to repairs.
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The Santa Fe may well have a fuel filter below the rear seat, but it’s almost certainly located on the outside of the car (as in, under the floor) rather than inside under the seat cushion. I’d be very surprised if any of the car’s fuel system or lines ran inside the passenger compartment.
Which means it’s still possible that some fuel was spilled under the car during the filter change or that there’s even a fuel leak as a result of the change. Either could lead to a smell inside the car, but it shouldn’t persist. If it does, there’s a problem. Take it back to the dealership and ask for the problem to be fixed. If the dealership somehow spilled petrol on the seat trim or allowed fuel to enter the cabin in some other way, they are responsible for fixing it. Driving around in a car with petrol fumes inside is an obvious health and safety issue.
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The Hyundai Santa Fe 2024 prices range from $33,440 for the basic trim level SUV Mpi (2Wd) to $82,390 for the top of the range SUV Calligraphy (6 Seat) (Grn Int).
The Santa Fe is primarily a seven-seat offering in Australia with only the top-spec Calligraphy available with a six-seat layout. A five-seat version is also available in its home market of South Korea. The seats are clad in cloth trim for the base model, synthetic leather on the mid-spec elite, and Nappa leather in the top-spec Calligraphy.
The new-generation Santa Fe's interior has a high specification even in base form. It has grown in almost every dimension, now able to fit adults in relative comfort in the back seat, and offers cloth, synthetic leather, or Nappa leather trim depending on grade.
Standard equipment even on the base version of the Santa Fe includes 20-inch alloy wheels, LED headlights, cloth interior trim with power adjust for the driver, dual 12.3-inch screens for the digital dash and multimedia touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, dual wireless phone charging bays, keyless entry and push-start ignition, heated front seats, and power adjust for the driver.
There are a total of 10 colour options in the Santa Fe range, including two blues, two greens, black, two whites, brass, orange, and silver
Boot space is 628 litres with five seats up, or 1949 litres with two seats up. Hyundai does not provide a figure for when all seven seats are deployed.
The Santa Fe launched in Australia with a single powertrain option, a 1.6-litre turbocharged hybrid with combined outputs of 172kW/367Nm. A 2.5-litre turbo is set to arrive later, providing 207kW/422Nm.
The 1.6-litrem four-cylinder turbo hybrid Santa Fe can sprint from 0-100km/h in 9.5 seconds.
At its official fuelc onsumption of 5.6L/100km, the 1.6-litre turbo hybrid Santa Fe can travel over 1000km thanks to its 67-litre fuel tank.