Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe

The contact owns a 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe. The contact stated that while driving at 60 mph, the vehicle began to accelerate independently without warning. Due to the unintended acceleration, the contact had to depress her brake pedal to the floor board as well as use her emergency hand brake in order to slow down the vehicle. Once the contact eased her foot of the brake pedal, the vehicle began to accelerate. Due to the force applied to her brakes, smoke began to emit from vehicle's exhaust pipe. The contact had to coast the vehicle until a parking lot until the vehicle came to a complete stop. The contact then turned off the vehicle and called titus-will Hyundai 2255 carriage loop sw, olympia, wa 98502 where they informed her to have the vehicle towed to there dealer. Once the vehicle was towed to the dealer, she received a call from the dealer stated that they were unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer had not been notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 100,700. Invalid VIN.

In 8/2015 we experienced an occurrence of sudden, unintended acceleration on a city street while driving. My wife was able to stop the vehicle by hard braking and shutting the engine off. She was able to drive it home and we had it towed to the Hyundai dealer. They diagnosed the problem: ". . . Checked and found vehicle throttle body to have a poor responce (sic). " they replaced the throttle body for a charge of $597. 94, informing me that it wasn't covered under the 10 year/100,000 mile warranty. The problem recurred today (7/14/2015), again while driving on a city street. When I called the service manager to report the incident I was told to drop the vehicle off and they'd look at it. I'll have it towed in to the shop, as this is not a condition with which I'd not care to drive. The fact that this condition recurred indicates that the problem is generic in nature, and that Hyundai is not considering it either generic or serious enough to address. I believe that there will be other vehicles experiencing the issue now that the "fleet" of Hyundai Santa Fe suvs is aging but still in service. I believe that it is essential that Hyundai address the issue systematically before serious injuries occur.

"sudden unintended acceleration" in Hyundai's, specifically Santa Fe. My wife has had this happen to her while driving her Hyundai Santa Fe three times now and the Hyundai dealership insists there has been no indication on the computer codes and that Hyundai does not have this problem. Therefore as far as they are concerned "sudden unintended acceleration" on her Santa Fe never happened.

The contact owns a 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe. The contact stated that while parked, she shifted into drive when the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a parking sign. The contact shut the ignition off in order to stop the vehicle and avoid crashing into other vehicles. The police reported to the scene and filed a report. There were no injuries. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 61,000.

While attempting to accelerate on an interstate to pass a vehicle, the accelerator pedal became stuck and the vehicle quickly sped up to 80 mph in a matter of seconds. Thankfully due to recent accelerator issues/recalls for other manufactures, I was able to shift the vehicle into neutral. The engine was pegged at max rpms while I frantically tried to get over through the lanes with the car in neutral. With three children aboard, this was a very harrowing experience. I was ultimately able to reach down, grab the accelerator pedal, and yank it back. After doing this, it again drove normally. I immediately looked at the pedal, floor mat, and carpet once arriving home. It is clearly obvious that the floor carpet itself (not the mat, the actual vehicle's carpeting) just under the pedal has hardened and developed a bulge such that the pedal will get stuck in it if depressed to far. This was brought to the immediate attention of the Hyundai dealership who indicated the warranty was no longer valid as the vehicle was past 60k miles (75k), and a call placed to Hyundai USA again yielded the same results, that the owner would need to pay $1400 to replace the flooring. There is clearly a design flaw in the floor carpet and raised section directly under the accelerator pedal that lead to this unintended acceleration, putting my safety at risk, and Hyundai is willing to hide behind the warranty to avoid keeping its once loyal customer safe.

While driving at 35 mph, accelerator suddenly did no longer respond and "check engine" and esc warning lit up and speed decreased. I was able to coast at 5-10 mph to the nearest dealer 8 miles away. They immediately diagnosed it to the tps unit (throttle position sensor), which was replaced under an extended warranty. However this is the second incident with this car. The first time happened in October 2007 just a week after we bought the car. We had to coast down a mountain from 8000 feet. At that time the tps unit was also replaced but under the original warranty. It is scary if/when it happens while passing a vehicle on the freeway or even in dense city traffic. I will alert Hyundai to this problem myself.