I took my Elantra in on Monday (night drop) because the rear calipers kept sticking on and the dealer's phone call confirmed this suspicion the following morning. They ordered new calipers and fitted them yesterday (Thursday) after the parts didn't show up on Wednesday. Well I picked the car up and immediately upon leaving the lot, felt that something was VERY wrong because I had to put the pedal almost 3/4 of the way to the floor to get any form of substantial stopping power. I went around the block and one of their techs drove it, saying it was "better" so I took the car home, still wary of the way the pedal felt.

Ever since I bought the car, the Elantra has had a very touchy brake pedal and I've never needed much more than an inch or so of travel to get substantial braking power. Anything more than that gives you full-on, shit-your-pants stopping force and I know this trait to be normal for the Elantra as I drove hundreds of the damn things when I worked as a temp at the port. I went to take a friend home and felt genuinely sick to my stomach at the thought of driving my car as it feels seriously dangerous so I took the MDX and once I got home, I called Hyundai Roadside Assistance to tow it back to the dealer as I was not about to drive it back to Beaverton, let alone to Seattle tomorrow as originally planned.

I have made up my mind that I simply will not accept the car until it stops the way Hyundai designed it to and the way it stopped for the last 33,600 miles until they got their hands on it. They claim they bled the brake lines but I don't think they did. A simple fluid change would not lead to such a dramatic and marked change in braking feel so I'm betting there's more air than brake fluid in those lines.

Any other opinions?

 

You lost me at Elantra.

 

Time to trade it in for something exciting!

 

Should've bought an Acura. Then you could post here.

 

Sounds like they needed to bleed some more air from the brake lines, or there's a leak, or a damaged master cylinder. Hard to say without a thorough exam. Should be an easy enough fix to have the dealer rebleed the brakes.

 

This^^ Stick to your guns.

 

 

Elantra is boring.
Buy Acura.

 

Is the system purely hydraulic or is it electric assist? Might be a master cylinder issue as well, but Dr. Bob says it as well.

 

Thats what I was thinking too.

 

If he had a acura-he would not need to post here-after all aren't acuras problem free