I got a somewhat plaintive call today from the local dealership, some office flunky assigned
to call all the owners in their records who haven't has any of the recalls/TSBs/campaigns/BS
done yet. I gave her my usual earrful, these dumb bandaid "fixes" are not the right answer, and
it would be a much better use of everyone's time to push back on Corp to be straight with the
public, and work on tooling up to do pack replacements and get them starting to ship to the
dealerships. This person works for the same service-department director thaf admitted that
I and the online community know way more about these cars and the situation than his own
people do, and they're still in a holding pattern waiting for Hyundai to do something genuinely
effective toward fixing the problem.
Meanwhile, my own rolling firebomb is in the body shop getting a new rear end... after all that
and the mods, there's NFW I'd consider buyback unless some other disaster comes along. The
body shop has specific instructions that if they have to take the car up to the dealership for
some sort of "recalibration", e.g. on the car-presence sensors under the rear bumper, they are
absolutely forbidden to touch any other software on the car.
_H*
