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Hyundai excessive oil consumption class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: A group of Hyundai and Kia vehicle owners are suing Hyundai Motor Co.
- Why: The drivers allege numerous models of Hyundai and Kia vehicles are equipped with defective engines that use excessive amounts of oil, stall and eventually fail.
- Where: The lawsuit was filed in a California federal court.
Hyundai makes numerous models of Hyundai and Kia brand vehicles with defective engines that use excessive amounts of oil, costing their owners huge sums of money, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
On Apr. 12, eight owners of Hyundai and Kia brand vehicles filed a class action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor Co. in a California federal court, alleging violations of federal warranty laws.
The Hyundai excessive oil consumption lawsuit alleges that numerous models of the automaker’s vehicles are equipped with defective Nu, Gamma, Theta, Lambda and Kappa engines.
The defective engines allegedly use excessive amounts of oil, stall and eventually fail. The drivers say Hyundai should have issued a recall for the vehicles a long time ago but hasn’t.
As a result, thousands of Hyundai and Kia owners and lessees have allegedly been forced to constantly check the oil levels, and oil must be added to the engines more frequently than even the owner’s manuals recommend, Car Complaints reports.
The engine issue has flow-on effects like reduction in engine lubrication due to crankshaft submersion and gaskets and seals damage, which leads to oil leaks.
The plaintiffs also claim that oil in their vehicles migrates to places where it shouldn’t be, damaging the combustion and exhaust systems.
This allegedly causes “abnormal wear of engine parts, oversaturation of carbon and deposits of oil sludge, ultimately requiring a costly engine rebuild or replacement.”
Automaker should honor warranty claims outside terms, Hyundai class action says
The plaintiffs allege that Hyundai should honor customers’ warranty claims even when the warranties have expired.
According to the lawsuit, Hyundai can’t adequately repair the oil consumption problems and doesn’t offer any reimbursement for out-of-pocket costs caused by the issue.
The class action states customers must suffer through long wait times for replacement parts, “and in most cases do not receive required engine replacements.”
The cars with the allegedly faulty engines include the 2012-2020 Hyundai Elantra, 2009-2018 Hyundai Genesis Coupe, 2019-2021 Hyundai Kona, 2020-2021 Hyundai Palisade, 2010-2012 and 2015-2021 Hyundai Santa Fe, 2009-2010 and 2015-2021 Hyundai Sonata, 2011–2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, 2010-2013 and 2015-2021 Hyundai Tucson, 2011-2021 Hyundai Veloster, 2020-2021 Hyundai Venue, 2010-2021 Kia Forte, 2017-2020 Kia Niro, 2011-2020 Kia Optima and Optima Hybrid, 2012-2021 Kia Rio, 2011-2020 Kia Sorento, 2012-2021 Kia Soul, 2011-2020 Kia Sportage, 2018-2021 Kia Stinger and 2022 Kia K5.
Meanwhile, Hyundai has expanded its recall of vehicles with an exploding seat belt part issue that has caused multiple injuries to include 6,240 of its 2021-2022 Elantra and 2020 Accent vehicles.
The plaintiffs are represented by Nye, Stirling, Hale & Miller LLP, Sauder Schelkopf LLC and Walsh, PLLC.
The Hyundai Oil Consumption Lawsuit is Cho, et al., v. Hyundai Motor Company, LTD., et al. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Are you one of the drivers affected by an allegedly faulty Hyundai engine? Let us know in the comments!
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3,127 thoughts onHyundai class action alleges excessive oil consumption
My daughter has a Santa Fe that is using a crazy amount of oil.
How do we get her into this class action law suit or is she automatically included?
What should we do?
I have this problem with my 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe and oil is SOO expensive I have looked for help and I’ve been told there is no recall so nothing we can do about it from the company, we have replaced parts to try and help the problem. Nothing has worked! If there’s a class action suit for this problem please sign me up!!
I have this problem with my 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe and oil is SOO expensive I have looked for help and I’ve been told there is no recall so nothing we can do about it from the company, we have replaced parts to try and help the problem. Nothing has worked! If there’s a class action suit for this problem please sign me up!!
2017 Hyundai sonata, 112000 now and I can’t keep oil in it. I just spent $2200 on my Hyundai sonata. They told me I had an oil leak and replaced a bunch of parts. After that my car ran out of oil completely after 1500 miles and they told me it was because i did not get the engine cleaned. They said it will help but now my car is just expected basically to burn a little oil. The cleaning was 850. I have only driven it 500-700 miles since the engine cleaning and it looks like the engine oil level is right at the L level.
2016 Hyundai Sonata, have been dealing with excessive oil consumption for almost 2 years, been to the dealership vehicle was bought at least 8 times for the oil issue, they ran a combustion test after months, their words “that SHOULD fix it”. car still burning excessive oil. Have contacted Hyundai Corporate USA several times, got jerked around with that, finally got someone in Hyundai Canada to help me. Insisted Hyundai for another Hyundai dealership to check car, after car still burning excessive oil, assigned another dealership. They checked oil, after 2 seperate 1000 mile checkups in their words, “by looking at the dipstick”, performed another combustion test. Ran car another 1000 miles, they checked by looking at dipstick ONLY, claim car is now fixed. Hyundai USA also asked me several times over conversations if I have contacted an attorney, I said no. 2 dealerships, 2 combustion tests, almost 2 years later, I will know in about another 800 miles, checking the oil. I was also told by Hyundai USA that they will no longer cover any more checks on my engine. They have left me out to dry! Original owner and car was in 40,000 mile range when this started, now in the 60,000 range, also purchased an extended warranty when car was bought, totally worthless!!! Hyundai could care less about this issue. Could not put in this post all the hell we have been through, for the last 2 years dealing with Hyundai!!
Ugh, oh the agony of the excessive oil consumption is literally ridiculous! I can’t tell you how many quarts and oil changes I’ve had and added over the last 2 years with my 2015 Veloster. Needless to say on the top of that with the knock sensor and rod bearings issue I’ve had to replace three times it’s been quite the disappointment of buying and financing my first car and pain up the wazoo for all these problems and all these headaches. Come to find out the company I bought my car from went bankrupt and is nowhere to be found! It’s been quite the headache. Then on top of that because of the thefts I could not find insurance for months and when I did it was insanely high! Yet they keep making more cars when they should be fixing ours!!
This is crazy. I just purchased a 2017 Hyundai Tuscan limited edition last year and it’s burning oil really fast as well. I keep up on my regular changes and maintenance needed every year. When, I took it to Valvoline to get the oil change, the guy told me that these truck burn oil excessive and you have to check it regularly. I was like “dang”, so frustrating. On top of that, I just found out the wastegate actuator solenoid sensor is going out which can cause expensive burning of oil. I’m getting it fixed at a shop right now not a Hyundai dealer cause the price was excessive for a sensor. Hopefully thus helps. Smh. there’s no doubt in my mind that they know the issue and don’t wanna pay for it. I would definitely like to be included in this suit.
Just dropped my 2017 Santa Fe Sport off because of a sudden misfire. Only 122k miles, but has required additional oil between the last 2 regular-interval oil changes. The shop said that, at the least, a plug broke and there was a hole punched in the #3 cylinder. I tried to submit a warranty request to Hyundai. Hope to hear back from them soon.
I had a 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe that had a blown engine at 43608 miles. Bought the car used with 16000. Oil was changed per recommendations. Last oil changed at 43545. Then engine blew. No warning or anything. Submitted a request to Hyundai for motor replacement and was denied because I didn’t have the records for the oil changes for the first 16000 miles. Appealed and denied again. Car was 1/2 way paid off. Paid for replacement engine out of pocket. I will never buy a Hyundai Vehicle again. Good thing I kept all my receipts and screenshots of communications with Hyundai.
I purchased a used 2017 4cyl 55,000 miles basic model hyundai sonata in 2018 from Enterprise Car Sales. I had the oil changed regularly and kept the maintenance up frequently on the car because i was a commuter. Everything was well until around mid 2022. I was driving and the car oil light came on. Shortly after the car stalled. Car had no oil in it. Fast forward to a month later car was low on oil again but not to the point it stalled but about 2 qts this time. From this point on I noticed a pattern. Even though I was getting the regular scheduled oil changes the car was requiring more oil in between changes. I knew it wasn’t leaking oil due to me parking my car in my garage at home and a garage at work with no oil residue in site. So it had to be burning it. Long story short by Feb 2023 I was buying oil by the gallons. I legit was putting a whole oil change of oil in it before oil changes and that was pushing it. Finally I had a friend’s mechanic look at it told him what it was doing and he knew about the faulty Theta engines hyundai was having. He legit told me to get rid of the car immediately or I’d be stuck cause the engine was going to lock up on it within the next couple of weeks. He said I had a month tops. I was on the tail end of having the car paid completely off. Ugh!!!! He told me this within the first week of March 2023. Come April 14, 2023. I loaded the thing up with oil and traded it in to the local hyundai dealership. Walked out with a 2021 fully loaded mazda. I was upset I had to start all the way over on a new car loan but I needed a more reliable car. After all I am a 5-6 days a week commuter. Total drive time a day 2½-3 hours there and back. Here’s the kicker, I kept track of the sell on the hyundai through the online website of the dealership. It wasn’t even listed 4 days before it disappeared. It still had the listing saying it was for sale but the picture was gone and it read inquire within. Pretty sure they found out it was burning oil. Oh and I know I lost money on that trade in but I didn’t want to be stuck paying 2 car notes simultaneously and one car would be worthless.