2009 Hyundai Tucson Overview, Reviews, Ratings & Specs

Though I loved my 2009 Limited Tucson and babied it up until last summer when it spontaneously caught fire and burned to the ground. It was sitting in my laneway, my teenage kids were home alone and luckily they called 911 right away. A few minutes later and my house would have burned down too! Apparently 09 Tucson, like other Tucson and Kia models have this problem.

I bought a new Hyundai Tucson in June 2010. It was serviced at the dealership on schedule. In November 2016 I was on a highway doing the limit of 100 kmh when it went into * and in a few seconds it reached 150kmh. .After a few terrifying minutes it decelerated returning to normal. The dealership could not replicate this. Three days later the same thing happened and ditto regarding replication. In December 2016 the same thing happened except this time I was able to pull over to the shoulder and after returning to normal revs I could not get it over 25 kmh so limped home. The dealer could not replicate this.. In February 2019 while in reverse the car lurched forward, crossed a small parking lot, came to a stop. I was able to repark with no problem. Replication at the dealer. In October 2019 the car took off while being parked and crashed into a store front door causing expensive damage both to the store with the car now being a write off. Now I am told by Hyundai that it wants to extract the air bag, which did not deploy, to send to Korea for inspection. Hyundai will not guarantee that it will share the report with me or my insurance. Any thoughts or advice would be welcome.

Having bought the vehicle brand new in 2009, we were, at first, quite happy with it. My pain concern, initially, was that *inside* the vehicle, the transfer of noise from the tires was quite loud. Other than that, it served us well for about 8 yrs.....until the transmission failed. But, as we had followed Hyundai's maitenance schedule quite loyally throughout owning the car, Hyundai did pay for the new transmission (but not the costs of replacing it). This was before it even hit the 200,00 Km mark. It's now 2020, and closer to that 200,000 Km mark, and the "check engine" light came on. We had it serviced, and returned to to us (with a repair bill of $750.00.) The "check engine" light problem occurred again. Return trip to Hyundai service dept. Now we're told it need a new (or used) engine. The quote is for a $2500.00 used engine (with 150,000 Km on it) and an install bill of approx. $3500.00 - so $6,000 bill total. After already paying $750.00 for the problem that was NOT fixed. Needless to say, my recommendation is to never deal with Hyundai, or buy another Hyundai vehicle, ever again.

Comfortable car but not powerful engine, great interior and exterior design.

It sometimes has issues starting. It has had that issue since I bought it, but they didn't believe me. I do love the size though.

I like the safety features that it has but wish the leather seats were all leather instead of perforated leather.

My daughter gave me the cat last week. I had been driving minivans for the last 30 years and this car is a SUV. The ride is very different. To me it feels like riding in a pick up truck--bouncy and rough. One good thing are the mirrors; they are large and make traffic clearly visible. I am very tall; however there is plenty of room for my legs under the steering wheel. The best part is that it cost me $1. 00!

I like that I do not have a payment. I like that my vehicle has leather interior and that it is good on gas mileage. I like that it is a smaller SUV vehicle and not big and bulky. I dislike that it is an older vehicle with higher mileage. I dislike that I do not have a navigation system.