Directly from the mechanic... "The Hyundai dealer must have gotten a bad hit of acid, the vehicle has shims for adjusting the valve lash. This thing doesn't have lifters at all. So, after further review, when I pulled the VVT solenoid out, one of the screens was covered in metal. We gave the Hyundai dealer the VIN and he gave us the wrong parts . ???? that said, the parts that we got over, intending to replace are not the problem. The engine has a major malfunction and my suggestion if you want to keep the car is to replace the engine. A used engine would be between 4-5k and that’s a junkyard pull."

For reference, KBB values this vehicle at just under $2 grand, so 4-5k for a used engine is ridiculous. I contacted Hyundai and nothing, not even a reply.

Took my car into the dealer after noticing excessive engine noise. I was first told that it was a normal noise during break-in of the engine until the tick got louder. After a few months of complaining and the dealer throwing parts at the car, they decided it was time to replace the short block [bottom half of the engine]. Despite my efforts to convince the dealer the noise was top end [valve] noise, they went ahead with there repair anyways. The dealer was unsuccessful in ridding the noise and sent my car to an engine shop the have the top end rebuilt, where they found a bad lifter and a resulting bad valve. My car was in the shop for 2 weeks.