Tough morning starts??

[hyundaifan]

Originally Posted by Administrator

Sounds like a connection somewhere between the battery, starter and alternator. Get them to check it out. It could also just be a bum starter or solenoid. I have seen it happen before on other Hyundai cars.

Nadeem

Last Saturday it wouldn't start in my garage. The wheel would unlock but got nothing beyond that pushing the start button. All lights were bright so it wasn't the battery. Finally had time on Monday to call Hyundai Roadside Assistance and within an hour or so it was on a flatbed headed to the dealer. It took me a while to find in the manual how to unlock the shifter so we could push it out of the garage. The manual is great but the index sucks. On Sunday googled "smart keycar won't start" and found a Nissan GTR blog dealing with similar occurrences with their smart key. I suspect all these smart key electronics come from the same vendor. Anyway I'm still waiting for the dealer to get to my car and when I see the service report I'll post again.

[Administrator]

Let us know what happens. No noise at all does sound like a problem with the key.

Nadeem

[hyundaifan]

The no start problem on my car turned out to the brake light switch which evidently worked intermittently and then finally failed. As you all know the brake must be depressed on the automatics before the smart key circuit is energized. Fortunately I was never rear ended since I imagine there were times when driving that the brake lights weren't working. Anyway alls well

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by hyundaifan

The no start problem on my car turned out to the brake light switch which evidently worked intermittently and then finally failed. As you all know the brake must be depressed on the automatics before the smart key circuit is energized. Fortunately I was never rear ended since I imagine there were times when driving that the brake lights weren't working. Anyway alls well

Thanks for the update. I would have never guessed it was the brake switch. Now we know. Cheers!

Nadeem