Hyundai on Watchdog Tonight

Gloomendoom

roddydogs wrote: »

Didnt understand how they can change to a "Heated" filter, does it connect to the electricity circuit?

They don't, that programme was very poorly researched from a technical perspective.

The "new" filter they talk about isn't. It is exactly the same as the old one. There is nothing wrong with the filter, it is a standard filter that is used on other vehicles.

What they have started fitting is a modified filter housing with a heater that works. The old filter housing had a heater but it appears that some worked and some didn't, which is probably why only a minority of cars fitted with that engine are affected.

Oddly, the problem also seems restricted to vehicles using fuel supplied from the Grangemouth refinery. That could be why Hyundai are blaming the fuel. More likely, it is the fuel combined with a duff heater.

orionmoo

agrinnall wrote: »

Sounds to me like an air lock in the fuel system caused by evaporation on a hot day - can you park in the shade?

Cheers for the advice! Sadly no, our allocated bays are in the open, not along a building

It's always fine in the morning or on a cool day.. I'll see if there is anywhere more shady to park.

Is this something repairable?

interstellaflyer

I saw last nights program and I am wondering if there wasn't a little bit of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story going on, ie they weren't giving us the whole story in the cases shown especially as cars from other manufactures were mentioned as having the same problems, including Ford Focus and Nissan Qashqai, now I have a diesel Qashqai, bought new March 13, it's gone through the back end of one winter and through 2 full winters without missing a beat and I use bog standard supermarket diesel from either my local Tesco or Sainsburys, I do 45-50 miles a day 6 days a week just getting to work and back, it very rarely get used for short stop start journeys, I'm just wondering if part of the problem is people being obsessed with buying diesel cars for all the wrong reasons, the other thing mentioned was that the problem was due to using bio fuel, now if a car is not designed to use bio diesel, why use it? Is it a case of RTFM?

daveyjp

Not as easy as saying not to use biodiesel as it is impossible to know if what you are buying is 100% non bio.

interstellaflyer

daveyjp wrote: »

Not as easy as saying not to use biodiesel as it is impossible to know if what you are buying is 100% non bio.

The Bio Diesel pumps I've seen have been marked Bio.

daveyjp

interstellaflyer wrote: »

The Bio Diesel pumps I've seen have been marked Bio.

But 'normal' diesel can also contain a proportion of bio, there is no requirement to label them.

EdGasket

So it was waxing of diesel due to increased bio-diesel content; not a specific Hyundai problem as they quite rightly say.

photome

we have a fleet of kia ceeds and many of them have stopped each winter due to filter blocking

flashg67

Bit unfair to pick on Hyundai if it is fuel waxing - I've seen it on many Fords, Ciroen & Peugeot and others more sporadically

EdGasket

photome wrote: »

we have a fleet of kia ceeds and many of them have stopped each winter due to filter blocking

Kia and Hyundai are the same company just different marketing names.