2000 Hyundai Sonata when I purchased he car January 30,2010 it was running fine now it runs terrible. I've purchased two new sets of tires because something keeps wearing my tires out. I sounds like something underneath is scrubbing. No pressure or suspension, especially on the highway.

- Atlanta, GA, USA

The contact owns a 2000 Hyundai Sonata. While making a turn at approximately 5 mph, the vehicle jerked to the right and then completely shut off. The contact exited the vehicle and discovered that the front passenger side tire was shredded and the subframe failed. The vehicle would start, but it did not move. The VIN is not included in the recall. The recall number was unknown. The current and failure mileages were 140,000.

- Durham, NC, USA

On August 25th, 2007, my wife and I were driving home on the southern state parkway. There was quite some traffic (stop-and-go kind of thing) so we weren't at a high speed. When the person in front of me had to stop short, I stepped on the brakes, and the front right wheel of my car sunk, and there was a loud noise like metal scratching against the pavement. After I finally managed to stop the car without getting hit by another driver, and checking to see if my wife was ok, I got out of the car just to find out that my front right wheel was in an almost horizontal position. After towing the car to the repair shop, my mechanic found out that the axle and the lower control arm broke because the engine cradle was severely rusted, and therefore there was no support for the axle and the control arm to sustain the weight and pressure of the sudden stop. Needless to say, I believe that my wife and I are very lucky to not have been injured, or to cause somebody else an injury. The repairs were costly, but I had to do it. I need the car to work, and we live in a place were the car is an everyday necessity. The cradle for this vehicle was damaged and completely rusted away and needed to be replaced completely at a cost of $2,897.22. We also incurred the following expenses due to the cradle failing while we were driving the car on the southern state parkway on August 25th, 2007: Towing charge of $168.37, car rental charges of $164.53. A written estimate from a local body shop for $996.59 should be added to cover the body damage sustained when the right side axle and right side lower control arm cracked, causing the front right side wheel to bend the right side bumper cover. My mechanic kept the old cradle up to a couple of months ago, when after dealing with the local dmv office and explaining the situation they informed us that "a dmv judge wouldn't even look at this case". I do still have pictures of the rusted cradle where you can see the fist-sized holes in it.

- Farmingdale, NY, USA

I currently own a year 2000 Hyundai Sonata V6 gls. On the morning of July 17th, 2008 at approx. 3:45 am I was driving my vehicle on a newspaper route for a local distribution company. I was making a right hand turn off a main street onto a side street as I my steering wheel jearked to the right very quickly, and my car out of the blue went out of allignment, to a degree that it would appear that I must have crashed into something. But I did not. As time went on, my tires began shreading themselves onto the area surrounding the actual two front tires. When I went to a local Firestone to get a allignment and two new front tires, they lifted it up and informed me that the problem was a part called the "subframe" and it was extremely rusted on the right hand side. After reading various reports on the internet, I decided to write a formal complaint on this vehicle. I have yet to contact Hyundai directly as it is the weekend, but my intent is to inform them on Monday morning. The approx. Mileage on this vehicle is 122,000 miles.

- Chesterfield, MO, USA