Three problems related to rear suspension have been reported for the 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe based on all problems reported for the 2003 Santa Fe.
When I was driving my 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe at about 30mph, the rear left suspension failed and I lost control of my car. The wheel connecting to it was out of its position by about 10 degrees. The suspension is heavily rusted and I was lucky I was not driving on a highway and no one got hurt. I googled this problem and found several similar cases have been reported to you. So I think my case would be one of them.
The contact owns a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe. She received a recall letter and the dealer advised her that the repair would take over 5 days to perform due to the internal corrosion of the rear trailing arms. The contact did not find that information listed in the recall notice, NHTSA campaign id number 09v123000; component: suspension rear or that the repairs would take more than a few hours. The current and failure mileages were 32,500.
The contact owns a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe. The front left trailing arm corroded, which caused the bar to separate from the wheel. The vehicle was repaired at a local repair facility. After the repair she received recall notice # 09v123000(suspension:rear). She sent receipts to the manufactures main office in reference to reimbursement. She received a letter rejecting her claim shortly afterwards. The failure mileage was 80,299.