I was told today because of recall 200, Hyundai wants buy back our cars

Didn't miss this s*** when I bought my TM3.

Painfully lived through this s*** when my wife bought her 2021 Kona EV.

Dealership model (as currently constructed) is living on borrowed time.

 

You can trust some dealers.

The last three cars I bought, the Costco online process connected me with a dealership that had their relationship with Costco to maintain. Once I wound up with a better price elsewhere. But in each case I got a good agreed price, visited the dealer for the first time and drove off in my new car with no surprises.

I will use any convenient dealer for a test drive. That gets them first shot at proving they are trustworthy. None of them ever have.

Apologies for wandering OT.

 

I'm still waiting to hear from Sedgwick.. May still take a week until they will contact me.. What I've read is that they will calculate buyback amount based on state lemon law.. I wonder what state's lemon law they will use in my case.. I bought in Maryland and live in Florida.. Neither Lemon law really applies to me as Maryland Lemon Law only applies to cars registered in Maryland and Florida law applies only to cars BOUGHT in Florida.. So, neither of those apply.. Hopefully, they will go by Florida lemon law..

 

Maybe they'll apply neither and tell me that I'm not covered under Lemon Law...

 

Really hope those who purchased these gets the battery replaced or buyback, one of the main advantages of BEV is supposed to be better reliability especially since less parts than ICE vehicle.

How Hyundai treats their customers will affect repeat business as well as deter people from purchasing if they see other customers not taken care of.

Dan

 

Other than the lack of support with the IRS issue, I have only had good experience with Hyundai.. My local dealer is fantastic and the car has been 100% problem free other than the issue with the LG battery which is of course not even made by Hyundai. I don't think that they could have handled the situation any different.

 

Having a good dealer can make all the difference , great your dealer has been fantastic.

Dan

 

Same here (U.S. Version though) . The date on my battery is 12/19/2019 which is in the recall date range, but when I look up my vin, it shows no open or closed recalls at all, not even 196.

 

How much for a battery?
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As discussed above, the specific price is likely to differ from state to state depending on their lemon law, if they have one. (So please consider adding your location to your profile, so we can be of more help.)

It will be interesting to see if Hyundai is nicer than required, or if they try to lowball. If they offered less than California requires, it might be a tough call whether to accept or go through the state arbitration process. In some states, would you have to sue?

 

Yes, that's fair, and I would expect that's what they will do. But do we know they are? Has anyone gotten a price offer yet?

 

Someone posted on one of the Kona Electric Facebook groups that they got an offer but they wouldn't disclose how much. They said that the offer was in line with how the CA lemon law would calculate it. They didn't seem disappointed with the offer amount.

 

Found this for those in Canada

Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan (CAMVAP), which essentially is Canada’s “lemon law”

https://www.wheels.ca/news/canadas-has-a-lemon-law-program-that-you-didnt-know-existed/

 

Yes, I used the buyback tool on that site to estimate my buyback at $40K. It's a long process to get there though.


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I wonder if the buyback offer will include destination fee along with dealer fees (conveyance, dealer prep, etc.)?

 

I think it varies by State, but most laws I think require they to pay for all the fee's associated with the purchase. Although I don't know if the dealer tacked on fee's that weren't required then maybe those won't be covered? My guess is they'll just look at the bottom line of your bill of sale.

 

Having been personally acquainted with this process I can't state with confidence that this is nothing like a Lemon Law.

 

Had all the recalls and got the notice on my car that charge would be limited to 80%. I did enjoy the car but made me a little nervous with all the battery issues and actually was only charging a little more than 50%. I immediately started exploring options and ended up selling rather quickly at a price I was happy with at the time.

I am assuming I can’t do much at this point, but is there possibly anything? Did I sell prematurely? I would not have been inclined to look to sell if there were not so many issues with car.