Three-year-old Santa Fe SUVs and Elantra sedans may need new backup cameras installed, says the automaker
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On some of these affected vehicles, the soldering used to connect leads in the cars’ printed circuit boards may not have been applied correctly, and could crack; furthermore, high temperatures generated by the camera when in use could worsen the cracks. If the contact degrades severely enough, this could result in a loss of signal and cause the rearview display on the vehicle touchscreen to, well, not display when it’s supposed to.
Even though Hyundai had amended this problem on its production lines several years ago, ensuring its supplier’s updated cameras had improved soldering on their boards as of April 2022, it’s only now getting around to repairing the vehicles built before that date and equipped with the inferior parts.
Luckily the fix seems easy enough: a swap to the newer-style camera at affected owners’ local Hyundai dealership, performed free of charge.
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