Cruise Control problems of the 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe

On 6/17/2018 @ approximately 5:00pm while driving my Santa Fe, I began to have surging power. I attempted to disengage the cruise control but could not. I would slow down only to speed right back up as if I had pushed the resume button, I had not. I attempted to shift into neutral however my geer shifter was locked into drive & I couldn't get the shifter out of drive. At times the car would start to slow down after pu mping the breaks only to have a surge of power again. As I was driving, I came up to a sharp curve & wasn't able to slow down therefore I ended up rolling the SUV & further slamming to a large hill. I was injured in this accident due to rolling my car! this happened bc I believe the cruise control got stuck & locked up my transmission!!! I also couldn't turn the key off since the car was in drive.

Dec 16, 2011 around 9:45am my husband and I had just picked my sister and brother in law up from the airport and had decided on grabbing some breakfast from waffle house. I had come to a complete stop to turn right into the restaurant parking lot; I then drove about 15 feet going maybe 5 mph to come to a complete stop to then turn right to get ready to enter into the parking spot. Once I released my foot from the break (not needing to apply the gas as my parking was maybe 20 feet to my right and the car should accelerate at a low speed on its own) the 2010 Santa Fe took off at an alarming speed I pressed my foot all way back down on the break but the car did not stop. I then looked down to see if my foot was on the break it was down to the floor board. The Santa Fe went over the parking spot and into the bushes then stopped itself. Thank god because the road was on the other side of the bushes. I have never experienced a vehicle doing this? I then contacted the service department at Hyundai where I purchased my car and was told that only happens to Toyota that they have never heard of it happening to their vehicles. My husband and I took the car back to the dealership where we e-mailed and reviewed of the photos with mark odat and 2 other managers showing the damage that accrued while going over the cement curb. I don’t know if there were any damages under my car, I noticed scratches to the paint and a bent license plate (which I bent back into place). I had brought my Santa Fe up to the dealership back in late August or early September 2011 with a complaint and spoke directly to the service manager jr that twice when I was on my trip from houston, TX to atlanta, GA when using the cruise control once I touched the break to turn the cruise control off the Santa Fe would accelerate instead of decelerate and that it had a hard time going up hills,.

On Tuesday, June 8, 2010 I was on a busy interstate highway with fast moving traffic and my car lost all power while traveling at 70 mph. Fortunately, I was able to barely glide the sante fe to the shoulder and stop without incident. Follow up: 3 pm visited Hyundai service center and was told that it was not a throttle problem. They are in contact with CA service to determine cause of problem. Friday, 6-11-10 after complete testing of all circuits, Hyundai declares no source of problem. Auto was picked up at 4:30 pm Hyundai assistant service manager: bob wood Hyundai case # 3982284 the specifics are: ? SUV was purchased 8/09 and currently has 5200 miles. ? cruise control was on but not engaged. ? gas tank indicator on one-half. ? with my foot on gas pedal the initial instinct was that the engine had lost all power. O pressing harder on gas pedal had no reaction. O there was an opening in traffic and with the SUV forward inertia I was able to just reach the road shoulder. O observed that red indicators were on (battery, oil) ? reset transmission selector to park, turned off key. O first restart-nothing happened o second restart SUV started and I did not turn off until reaching home. Obviously, this is a serious life threatening situation that needs to be researched thoroughly and corrected.