Front Suspension problems of the 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe

I parked my vehicle in a parking lot at 8am and then by 1pm my coil spring broke destroying my tire and resulting in my getting towed. Had my coil spring broke on the highway I would have crashed.

Was just pulling the car down the drive way and the front passenger side tire blew out. I stopped the car and a friend was going to change the tire. He noticed the spring had broken loose and punctured the tire. The car had been sitting in the drive way for 12 to 15 hours before we went to drive it. We had not even made it on the road and was only going a couple miles per hour and about 15 to 20 feet. We were on our way, going out of town and were thankful that we did not have this happen going 65 mph on the highway were we could have been hurt or hurt some one else. Several times a week we have a new born and a two year old in this vehicle. Thankfully they were not with us. This front end suspension problem needs to be looked at, somebody is not going to be as lucky as we were. For us it was the drive way and not driving on the high way at a high speeds with our family.

I have a 2004 Santa Fe and just the other day my driver side coil spring broke, lucky I wasn't driving it at the time however it going to cost about 1250. 00 to fix.

Passanger side spring seperated causing tire damage.

I was travelling down the highway at 70mph when, all of a sudden, I heard a bang and the car veered out of control. It was a terrifying experience. I regained control of the car I was able to safely pull to the side of the road to investigate and I noticed that the coil spring broke. The following day I brought my vehicle to the Hyundai dealer and they charged an outrageous amount to replace. Not very likely that I would purchase another Hyundai.

One month ago,with 40,600 miles on my Hyundai Santa Fe the right front spring broke and shredded my tire which the Hyundai dealer replaced under warranty. Three weeks later the left front spring broke and shredded that tire also. If I had been on the express way, I probably wouldn't be here to tell about it. In the past fifty years I have owned 15 cars and never had a front spring break down much less two in three weeks. Even though the Hyundai dealer,patrick of schaumburg, replaced these springs under warranty, I still incurred a $200. 00 car rental bill. Hyundai doesn't seem to know what the cause is of these spring failures at only 40,600 miles. Any help as to the cause of this problem would be greatly appreciated.