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2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe, 3.8 Track with a 6 speed and about 46,000 miles on the odometer. Mostly highway miles, it's our road trip/cruise car (lot's of fun).
I was leaving the bank and pulling out to cross the traffic lanes. It started to accelerate and then sort of "died". I didn't know if my foot had just slipped off the gas pedal or if I'd hit the brake, too. By then I was across the road and turning/slowing down at the stop light. The light turned green and I stepped on the gas.
All I could get was about 7 or 8 miles and hour (45 mph zone and 3 lanes in each direction). I looked down and saw the check engine light was on. I made the first right turn off the highway, went a coupe blocks and pulled into the Post Office parking lot. No matter how far I pushed the pedal down, no speed increase.
I called Hyundai Roadside Assistance, gave them some basic info and they called the tow truck for me. The truck came, loaded up the car (I started it up again and turned it around so we could get it up on the roll back).
Got to the dealer and handed over the key and took a seat. About 45 minutes later the Tech. came out with the paperwork (after driving the car around front) and headed to the service desk and I followed him.
I listened while he explained what he found (I didn't catch it all) and what he did to fix it. He said an incorrect input to the computer caused the computer to believe the engine was not receiving enough fuel. He said the first failure resulted in two more codes for a total of three fault codes.
He told the girl at the service desk that there was a Tech Service Bulletin out on that problem in those cars and he'd followed the TSB recommendation to reprogram the computer with an updated program and that took care of the problem.
Anyone else have similar issues? Anyone else hear about the TSB on the 3.8 engine computer issues?
You'd think, if there was enough of an issue that there was a TSB out on it and a revised program for the computer that they'd just notify the owners to come in and take care of it before they have problems out on the road.
Once again, I'm so lucky. We have a road trip planned for this weekend and I'm glad the car screwed up today, 12 miles from the dealer ship vs. this weekend, a couple hundred miles from the dealership. That's the way my bad luck works. Breakdowns almost always occur close to home.
I was leaving the bank and pulling out to cross the traffic lanes. It started to accelerate and then sort of "died". I didn't know if my foot had just slipped off the gas pedal or if I'd hit the brake, too. By then I was across the road and turning/slowing down at the stop light. The light turned green and I stepped on the gas.
All I could get was about 7 or 8 miles and hour (45 mph zone and 3 lanes in each direction). I looked down and saw the check engine light was on. I made the first right turn off the highway, went a coupe blocks and pulled into the Post Office parking lot. No matter how far I pushed the pedal down, no speed increase.
I called Hyundai Roadside Assistance, gave them some basic info and they called the tow truck for me. The truck came, loaded up the car (I started it up again and turned it around so we could get it up on the roll back).
Got to the dealer and handed over the key and took a seat. About 45 minutes later the Tech. came out with the paperwork (after driving the car around front) and headed to the service desk and I followed him.
I listened while he explained what he found (I didn't catch it all) and what he did to fix it. He said an incorrect input to the computer caused the computer to believe the engine was not receiving enough fuel. He said the first failure resulted in two more codes for a total of three fault codes.
He told the girl at the service desk that there was a Tech Service Bulletin out on that problem in those cars and he'd followed the TSB recommendation to reprogram the computer with an updated program and that took care of the problem.
Anyone else have similar issues? Anyone else hear about the TSB on the 3.8 engine computer issues?
You'd think, if there was enough of an issue that there was a TSB out on it and a revised program for the computer that they'd just notify the owners to come in and take care of it before they have problems out on the road.
Once again, I'm so lucky. We have a road trip planned for this weekend and I'm glad the car screwed up today, 12 miles from the dealer ship vs. this weekend, a couple hundred miles from the dealership. That's the way my bad luck works. Breakdowns almost always occur close to home.
