Owner reviews for drive shaft

Other than the boring looks they are superb A to B cars. They even fixed the appalling ride of the gen8. I had a gen8 for years and this is an all round far better car. It does nothing amazing but everything fairly well or at least not bad.

My drive shaft got replaced (with a stronger one).

Since than (8 months ago) the problem/sound is completely gone

I’m about to pull the trigger on an SKF drive shaft, as I couldn’t find GKN. From what I’ve read they are a premium OE manufacturer, made Sweden I believe.

4th gen is notorious for drive shaft clunk, needs greasing about every other oil change. Grease completely makes it go away, for me at least.

Long story short, after some trial and error it turned out the new driver's side drive shaft was the cause. Installed another one and the car ran fine.

For driveshaft you can go with GSP. They are not that bad.

Thierry Neuville was done pretty much even before the first Saturday stage began after discovering a driveshaft failure. Leaking oil was not a good sign, Thierry cruised through the first stage, but then was withdrawn. Reliability issues at Hyundai this year are no longer annoying, but embarrassing. This is 2004 Peugeot 307 WRC level of nonsense. Yes, Hyundai have had reliability woes here and there for years, but never before it has been so consistently bad.

I have the 2020 Model S and since I bought the car in 2023 consistently have to replace drive shafts every 12 months. Now 3rd time. It’s a design flaw and puts pressure when accelerating in curves.

One of my sons has a Toyota, which broke a drive shaft, and the A/C packed up.

That happened to me. It was 2008 and I was in an '87 Chrysler 5th Avenue. Had to end up scrapping the car because no junkyard or parts store within a hundred miles could get a replacement drive shaft.