Hyundai has presented a new wheel and tire design that incorporates built-in snow chains that deploy and retract at the push of a button, potentially putting an end to the fiddly, freezing process of wrapping and removing traditional snow chains.

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      • @AThing4String@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3•7 months ago

        Also they were HORRIFICALLY unreliable, to the point where my mechanic’s actual quote was “Folks, I’m not in the habit of talking myself out of a $10,000 paycheck, but this car is not worth it.” 30 minutes before we walked in his door it was working fine, by the time he went to drive it to the bay it wouldn’t start, and never did again.

        It wasn’t even paid off yet.

        To say nothing of the fact that one had to drop the engine to get to the alternator, the electrical blew itself out twice in the 4 years we owned it, very few of the features worked with any competence, and we just got our 3rd or 4th safety recall for it (or whatever is left of the parts at the scrapyard).

        Consumer Reports rated its reliability as a six - not out of ten, but out of ONE HUNDRED.

        Absolute lemons.

    • @NewPerspective@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•7 months ago

      Mine and my roommate’s Hyundais were stolen. His was stolen by a child. We know this because the high schooler that stole my roommate’s car kept parking it randomly around the neighborhood because he obviously couldn’t bring it home to his parents and parked the car directly in front of our house (he stole it from a train stop so didn’t know). We caught the kid when he came back for it. The kid was 16.

      Mine was stolen and then used in 3+ more hijackings involving a gun according to the FBI agent assigned to my case.

      • @NIB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5•7 months ago

        Only in the US and only extremely cheap versions of models. Other countries have mandatory immobilizer.