The so-called ghost acceleration, in which the driver is stepping off the accelerator pedal and the speed of the vehicle increases.
The acceleration pedal is pressed hard, and the acceleration delay continues to increase even after the foot is lifted.
Hyundai Motor Company has recently notified its customers of free repair.
18,000 Ioniqs made between 2016 and 2019.We’re going to add a ground for the engine part and improve the software.
But it was two years ago when Hyundai first identified the problem of ‘acceleration delay’.
According to a document sent by Hyundai Motor to the service center in June 2019, the problem of delayed acceleration should be solved by strengthening the ground of the motor and the decelerator module.
Phenomenon and countermeasures are almost the same as this free repair notice.
Nevertheless, Hyundai Motor has taken measures against 290 people who visited the service center before deciding to repair it free of charge.
Hyundai Motor Company said that it took a preemptive free repair measure because there was a new phenomenon in which the speed of the pedal was increasing and the existing delay in acceleration was increasing.The Korea Transportation Safety Authority, which has been investigating the defects of the
Ioniq> vehicle, will soon prepare a final report and hand it over to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.