I regret buying this.
I bought a new car because I wanted a vehicle I could take to someone else to work on, so I can finally enjoy my days off instead of fixing little things on my truck. I put off buying a new car because I knew they were cheaply built, overpriced, had unnecessary, annoying features, and weren't more reliable than the old stuff I own. However, I put all that aside and gave a Hyundai Santa Cruz a chance. At first, I wasn't as annoyed as I thought I'd be, but there are still lots of little things I don't like. The good things: It's quick. It gets good mileage. It stops very fast. The bad things: Certain settings have to be changed every time I start the car. The touch screen responds to my dog breathing on it. The center console is too high. There's switches in the console that Trotsky steps on. The door is too high to comfortably put my arm on while driving. There's an insane amount of buffeting with the window down. The front impact warning comes on randomly. The transmission shifts constantly and lags at take-off. The lights are too bright; all of them. The wipers lift at highway speed. A million other things, but I digress. The car is poorly designed and cheaply built, which I expected to a point. But, I did not expect trim pieces to fall off before the first oil change. And, I bumped something at less than a walking speed, rolling, foot on brake, in drive, and scratched the bumper fascia and cracked the front license plate mount, which is annoying but it's my mistake. What I didn't expect from that was to find out today that my mistake also resulted in a puncture to the ac condenser which caused a leak. They quoted me 1300 dollars to replace the condenser and charge the ac. I think it's insane that a bumper, used for its intended purpose, was unable to do its job. So, hopefully I can relinquish myself from this headache by selling or trading the car on something more affordable and less delicate.
Verified Owner
