Doomed
I found out today that my car's problems are much more immediate and worse than I realized and I'm freaking out about having to find a new, used, affordable car. Especially since I'm scared to drive this one much more with how the damage is ongoing. (It's burning oil super-fast now, which is now also ruining the catalytic converter. The repairs for this are ridiculously expensive.) And wondering how much I could get on it as a trade-in, if anything.
I advise everyone not to get a Hyundai. Their engineering, dealerships and dealership service departments, and corporate are horrible. My mechanic says several Hyundai owners have this oil burning problem. It's inherent in this engine. Hyundai just pretends otherwise.
Koeppel Hyundai, when someone finally talked to me after ghosting me for weeks last year: "Going through oil that fast is totally normal! (Even if your car didn't do it until recently.)"
Hyundai corporate: "You bought it used and no one told you to buy or offered to sell you an extended warrantee, so you didn't? Bwahahahahaahahaha! We don't have to cover anything!"
Having to buy an extended warrantee for a used car is something I've never heard of. If the used car lot I bought it from knew of this and saw a way to make money from it, you better believe they'd be offering it. Who also didn't hear about it? Some of the people working in Koeppel Hyundai's service department!
I jumped through hoops for months last year because some folks in service told me it would help, only to months later get told "No extended warrantee? Oh, hahahaha, sucks to be you."
I'm disabled and poor, Queens mass transit sucks ass, so I need a car and this one should've lasted me a hell of a lot longer than this. Looking for a car last time, in 2021, was a massive, stressful labor and I didn't want to do it again so soon. Plus, you know, the money. I'm still paying this one off and what is it even worth now?
I advise everyone not to get a Hyundai. Their engineering, dealerships and dealership service departments, and corporate are horrible. My mechanic says several Hyundai owners have this oil burning problem. It's inherent in this engine. Hyundai just pretends otherwise.
Koeppel Hyundai, when someone finally talked to me after ghosting me for weeks last year: "Going through oil that fast is totally normal! (Even if your car didn't do it until recently.)"
Hyundai corporate: "You bought it used and no one told you to buy or offered to sell you an extended warrantee, so you didn't? Bwahahahahaahahaha! We don't have to cover anything!"
Having to buy an extended warrantee for a used car is something I've never heard of. If the used car lot I bought it from knew of this and saw a way to make money from it, you better believe they'd be offering it. Who also didn't hear about it? Some of the people working in Koeppel Hyundai's service department!
I jumped through hoops for months last year because some folks in service told me it would help, only to months later get told "No extended warrantee? Oh, hahahaha, sucks to be you."
I'm disabled and poor, Queens mass transit sucks ass, so I need a car and this one should've lasted me a hell of a lot longer than this. Looking for a car last time, in 2021, was a massive, stressful labor and I didn't want to do it again so soon. Plus, you know, the money. I'm still paying this one off and what is it even worth now?