Watch your back? No - watch your front!

[Stylus-R-Us]

It's doubtful I'll be able to reach anyone in time with this - as it's a pretty standard thing that happens to the Genesis Coupe – and it’s not a nice thing at that. For all of you who have had this happen to your Coupe – you’ll share in this grief. For any of you with a Coupe that hasn’t become victim of this yet – BEWARE! It’s only a matter of time if you don’t heed this warning.

I’m talking of a plastic water shield that’s right under your Coupe in the front - directly behind the front – lower – painted piece - below the grill. If you were to get on the ground and feel and look up under the front – you’d see a black plastic shield that extends from left to right - all of the way across – and backwards about 15 to 30 inches. It’s curved to be higher in the front - and lower where it attaches onto whatever it attaches onto.

So what is the problem? Hyundai built this car so low – there's literally NO WAY to get the car near any of those GLOBAL cement parking space stops at the end of the parking place - without destroying your car. You know - those things that rise upwards 6 to 10 inches - and are about four feet long. Their job is to stop your cars tires from going any further. Unfortunately – they hit more than the tires on the Genesis Coupe and it will cost you $75.00 to replace – if you can do it yourself. It’ll cost $150.00 if you have Hyundai do it.

Isn’t Hyundai aware of this? Of course they are. Do they care? Not in the slightest. If they cared - they’d give you your first one free - as a lesson learned – not to get near those tire stops. After all – they are all over the world. But no: Hyundai could care less. The car is a rocket ship speed wise - and a blast to drive - and one of the finest cars I have ever owned.

BUT…mark my words – it’s just a matter of time before you forget this warning and pull too close. What happens is – the plastic quietly and nicely rides over the cement slab – leaving you unaware - until you go to back out. At that time - it will pull the shield off and there’s a good chance - destroy all kinds of other stuff close by.

How do you avoid this? Easy! Become a paranoid schizophrenic and never let this subject leave your mind - and you might just never be a victim. But just as sure as you’re reading this - there are countless others who have already been victims of it and again – Hyundai could care less.

 

[Soledad]

I know exactly what you mean. I tapped one of those concrete tire stoppers a couple of times. Now, I'm extremely anal about where the front end is when parking near one of these.

I test drove a Dodge Challenger SRT-8 and the front end is the same. When parking it the sales person told me to be very, very careful because the very bottom of the front bumper will contact that concrete stop. Sure enough I was inches away and it definitely would have hit.

 

[Milkmaster]

It isn't a Hyundai thing. Corvettes, Miatas, and several other sports cars have the same low clearance.

 

[frankv64]

It isn't a Hyundai thing. Corvettes, Miatas, and several other sports cars have the same low clearance.

Exactly. There's countless cars that are too low. You just have to be extra careful

 

[wild willy]

You wanna look good.....you gotta be careful

 

[ctrcbob]

That "thing" is called a bottom spoiler. I broke the one on my Continental, however I had a tube of glue (Automotive Goop, same as Carpenters Goop, Shoe Goo, etc) and glued the bottom spoiler back on, letting is sit overnight. That was five years ago and the spoiler is still there.

 

[mcginnpm]

You wanna look good.....you gotta be careful

Wild Willy is spot on. If I were Hyundai, I wouldn't give you a free one first time around as a "lesson learned" just because you ran up on the cement parking barrier. Sounds to me like the $75/150 repair bill taught you a lesson. If you had accidently opened your car door into a post and dinged it up, should Hyundai repair it the first time as a "lesson learned"? Like Willy says, you gotta be careful, or like I tell my wife, you gotta drive proficiently.

 

[STREETS]

Chevy doesn't give it's Corvette owners free body shop appointments for its nose dragging.
You purchase a car, you should now its characteristics and limitations.
Hyundai does make a Tucson & Santa Fe - they avoid curbs and park-stops.

 

[chompra]

It happened to me the second week I had the car. Cost $100 to fix. I now park the front a good distance from any such hazard.

 

[STREETS]

Imagine if you installed an aftermarket ground effects spoiler kit- YIKES!

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[wild willy]

I was on vacation a few yrs back in my Leased GTO. Pulled into a parking spot at McD's whre there was a curb. Curb was lower than my front lip. However, there was a piece of rebar coming up through the curb that you could not see unless you were an eagle. Well It snapped under the front lip (I had No Idea) Went in and ate....Went to back out and head home....My whole front bumper was ripped off and laying in the parking lot in front of the GOAT.

 

[Stylus-R-Us]

Wild Willy is spot on. If I were Hyundai, I wouldn't give you a free one first time around as a "lesson learned" just because you ran up on the cement parking barrier. Sounds to me like the $75/150 repair bill taught you a lesson. If you had accidently opened your car door into a post and dinged it up, should Hyundai repair it the first time as a "lesson learned"? Like Willy says, you gotta be careful, or like I tell my wife, you gotta drive proficiently.

I am positively NOT one to EVER use the ridiculous term - LOL = but if I was ever to do so - it would be here. OMMMMGGGG unbelievable!! There's always one or two - that can justify anything - and probably even 911. How anyone can justify a MAJOR automobile manufacture - building a vehicle that POSITIVELY - 100% guarantees it will suffer 100 to 150 dollars in damage (that's positively - not possibly) by merely PARKING IT (HELLOOOO) is more than I'll ever know.

What in the name of God - makes people think this way??? Hypothetically speaking - (and leave this alone - as it’s only an example) what if some 60 to 80 year old man - or most females - just happened to buy a Genesis Coupe and in the process of going to the Grocery store...did what 100% of all other grocery store customers do when getting there (PARKED!!!!) and - in the process of doing so – (in no way being negligent) totaled the plastic piece I'm talking about - which again - is a guaranteed thing by simply pulling into the parking lot far enough - to get your butt end out of the way. Now give us all a break! What? We have to filter in "caution" here? Or we have to inch-worm our way up until - what? Or we have to keep getting out of the car to see if we're far enough in yet not having hit the curb??? Is that what one SHOULD HAVE TO DO - after paying thirty two grand for a car???????

As far back as I can remember - MAJORITY RULES! And unless they changed that yesterday - it's prime time for here and now. For all of you - who enjoy listing the VERY few other cars who have similar problems - may I remind you that 95% of the cars don't - and the last time I checked - 95 over rules 5 many many times. Point: To bring up the few other cars that share in this lunacy - in no way justifies anything or makes it right or OKAY.

Nor will rebuttals remotely related to..."If you don’t like or want a low car you shouldn't have..." Please" Save all that nonsense for someone who'll go for anything. Ninety five percent of the Genesis owners - you may be sure - realize this is a huge mistake on Hyundai's part. And for those of you who'll even justify that - put this in your pipe and smoke it. If this is “the way it has to be" - then please tell me the page number in the owners manual where Hyundai warns owners of this guaranteed problem. HMMMMMMMMMM??? What was that page again??? Because without being able to present us with that page - I rest YOUR CASE. Case closed!

 

[Lardog]

If this is “the way it has to be" - then please tell me the page number in the owners manual where Hyundai warns owners of this guaranteed problem. HMMMMMMMMMM??? What was that page again??? Because without being able to present us with that page - I rest YOUR CASE. Case closed!

It's on the same page as the one in your life manual that warns you not to inhale while drinking a glass of water.

Parking blocks and curbs are not there for you to pull all the way up to until your tires hit. They are there as a barrier to prevent you from pulling too far in. If you hit them, then you are at or even over the limit. If you always push the limit, you are going to hit walls occasionally.

Seriously dude, get a life and take some responsibility for your own failures. You are the kind of person that has made our society so horribly litigious, needing to find fault and always placing blame for everything on someone else. It must get tiring, constantly being "The victim".

 

[Franknspeed]

If parking is already too much for you then you should reconsider driving in general.
Man up...

 

[mcginnpm]

How anyone can justify a MAJOR automobile manufacture - building a vehicle that POSITIVELY - 100% guarantees it will suffer 100 to 150 dollars in damage ... by merely PARKING IT.

...in just the same way that anyone can justify a major appliance manufacturer building a steam iron that positively - 100% guarantees you will burn yourself if you iron your clothes....while wearing them.

Unfortunately, someone must have ironed their clothes while wearing them and then found a good lawyer to sue the appliance manufactures...because many Owner's Manuals for irons now have a safety warning that says not to iron your clothes while wearing them.

In the famous words of Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does". I can only hope that we never get to the point where lawyers force automobile manufactures to publish thousand-page long Owner's Manuals that warn owners of every conceivable way in which they will damage their vehicle if driven without care or proficiency. Perhaps we should also add a warning not to iron your clothes while driving (or parking)?

 

[ImInPA]

Perhaps the KIA Soul is more your speed. Plenty of ground clearence and, best of all, you can bring along your hamster friends (whom actually might sympathize with your plight).

With all due respect, this is a common sense thing. No where in your owners manual does it state that you should not engage solid concrete barriers, Hummers, small childeren or pets, because the car is not designed to handle these things and will be damaged. Using your logic, the owners manual should also list such things as, not getting your head/neck stuck in the power windows, or, God forbid, the power sunroof while driving. Other "serious" omissions from automobile owners manuals include: failure to warn drivers not to drive off of cliffs ( you think the parking separater was bad on your bumper?) Most manual do not give any guidance about transporting Cobras, Asps, or other venemous nakes on the front passenger seat either. Perhaps one of the most commonly overlooked warnings in a modern vehicles owners manual is a warning against carrying several hundred pounds of raw cement cinder blocks on the hood of your car. You can only imagine how pissed off I was that no one warned me about doing that...lol. I bet the dents and scratches will never come out. THis is obviously a poorly designed vehicle.

 

[msitter]

This all goes back to the commonly held idea that no matter what happens to you in life, it is the fault someone else. He should be happy it only cost $150 to fix. My wife had a Saab Viggen that did the same thing and the front bumper cover was $1350 just for the part and it was held on with plastic clips that broke every time the cover hit a parking block. So this was a cheap lesson to learn and in the future don't park by braille.

 

[sarge]

Perhaps the original poster has a point. If, as he says, it is an absolute guarantee that every single person who ever attepts to park this car will incur $150 in damage, then maybe Hyundai does have some responsibility. After all, he used ALL CAPS to make his point - surely that carries some weight?

Or (and I know this is a stretch, but bear with me), maybe he is just a little frustrated at having a shiny new car, but not the experience necessary to have hit a curb with the nose before. I know that I've scraped the parking block with the nose of almost every car I've ever owned, and I didn't like it any of the times I did it.

Or, maybe Hyundai should put a warning on the dash "Warning! Running in to stuff may damage your car". I distincly remember that at one point, the Claymore Mine had the warning "Do not eat" on the back of it, right below the warning "Front towards enemy". presumably, those two seemingly self evident precautions were violated often enough to merit the waring.

 

[Stylus-R-Us]

If parking is already too much for you then you should reconsider driving in general.
Man up...

"Man up"? Cute. Man up this!!!! Vehicles do two things, Drive and park - and they do both equally. 50/50. And when you stand a high probability of damaging your car from what use to be a simple task of parking - 100% of the time....this isn't about "man up". This is about sheer ignorance of both the designers of the auto in question - and more so - the customer of a vehicle who lacks the intellect - (like you and your "bros") to see a mistake when it's biting you in the ass. As I'm forced to tell myself more times than not - "consider the source," and when I consider the insidious replies to this - what was to be a helpful post - I'm having a hard time fitting you few idiots into a "source". Unique morons - I guess.

But you - having read this and think you have this issue under control (so it doesn't happen to you) - when (not "if) it does happen to you - remember all of these clowns trying to justify this horrific mistake in manufacturing when you're at Hyundai getting your car fixed.

 

[Stylus-R-Us]

Perhaps the original poster has a point. If, as he says, it is an absolute guarantee that every single person who ever attepts to park this car will incur $150 in damage, then maybe Hyundai does have some responsibility. After all, he used ALL CAPS to make his point - surely that carries some weight?

Or (and I know this is a stretch, but bear with me), maybe he is just a little frustrated at having a shiny new car, but not the experience necessary to have hit a curb with the nose before. I know that I've scraped the parking block with the nose of almost every car I've ever owned, and I didn't like it any of the times I did it.

Or, maybe Hyundai should put a warning on the dash "Warning! Running in to stuff may damage your car". I distincly remember that at one point, the Claymore Mine had the warning "Do not eat" on the back of it, right below the warning "Front towards enemy". presumably, those two seemingly self evident precautions were violated often enough to merit the waring.

Ohhhh yeah. This is a reeeeaaall difficult thing to correct. Gee...let's see: How about an object sensor (like in the rear) under the front - aimed in such a way - it's range would only sound when going under 2 miles per hour and only go off when approaching an obstacle that standard size of those cement stops. 2012 models? Watch. This is a piece of cake to correct.

It's literally amazing to me that so many of you paid what you did for your Coupe - yet defend something like this. You're the kind of person who loves attention and has to show off in a crowd. Here we have other manufactures building vehicles that PARK THEMSELVES - while Hyundai builds them to destroy themselves.