Maintaining Your Hyundai Santa Fe

Hyundai's Santa Fe is one of the best looking SUVs available today. A multi-row SUV, depending on your configuration, it is capable of hauling the family and all your stuff too! A premium SUV, it will provide you with years and miles of driving pleasure, but like a child or a pet, it can't do it all by its lonesome. That's where you come in!  Your Hyundai Santa Fe by Hyundai of Hazelwood requires a set maintenance schedule to provide many years of service. Hyundai Motor America has taken care of that with the service schedule found in your owner's manual.

The Hyundai Santa Fe is blessed with the company's world famous 10-year/100,000-mile warranty for years of great service after many years and miles. HMA has also listed the service needs of your Hazelwood Santa Fe in the vehicle's owner's manual. By following it, your Santa Fe will provide you and your family with years of satisfied ownership.

Throughout the service cycle, the one constant in servicing your Hyundai Santa Fe is the planned 7,500 mile oil change and tire rotation intervals that will anchor each visit. At the same time Hyundai service mechanics will perform a check of the vacuum hose, serpentine belt and the engine air filter. You should expect to come in every 7,500 miles for scheduled service visits at 7,500, 15,000, 22,500, 30,000, 37,500 miles, and so on.
 
As your mileage climbs, several different service tasks will begin to weave in and out between service intervals, including inspection of the brake pads, calipers, rotors, lines and hoses. Also on tap is an inspection of the air conditioning refrigerant, driveshafts and boots, exhaust pipes and muffler, and other components that are vital to the safe operation of your Hyundai Santa Fe.

Hyundai Santa Fe tracking straight and true. That's why your Hyundai of Hazelwood service technicians recommend an alignment service once a year, or more as needed. But first, we recommend a tire balancing and rotation, before getting aligned. You will thank us later. We promise!

Stopping power: Your Hyundai Santa Fe comes with some mighty grabby brakes that are vital to the safety of you, your family and your surroundings, not to mention the safety of your car. We know about brakes! The brakes on your Hazelwood Hyundai Santa Fe are so critical that they should be inspected every time you come in for an oil change. A squeaking noise appearing when applying the brakes is a signal that their life is about up.  Metal to metal contact comes next, means a high-dollar repair is not long after that. At the first sound of a squeak, have them changed! DO NOT WAIT for the next oil change to take them in! Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Tires: Your Hyundai Santa Fe gets its grip from properly-matched tires designed to handle every condition you subject your new SUV to. Insure they are balanced, rotated, properly inflated and aligned in order to achieve the longest life possible. We also suggest you perform a monthly tread depth check.  Best of all, it will only cost you a penny! Grab a fresh Lincoln head penny from your pocket. Place it head first into the tire tread. If Honest Abe's header ends up at his ears or even his neck, you have plenty of tread depth. On the other hand, if you can see the top of this historic fellow's head, your Santa Fe is due for new tires. Stop by the Hyundai of Hazelwood Parts and Service department for the exact replacements your Santa Fe needs. They'll have exactly what your Hyundai Santa Fe needs. As we have said numerous times before, President Lincoln wasn't bald. Your tires shouldn't be either.

Windshield Wipers: Windshield Wipers are strange eggs. Strange because they can end up being worn out without actually having been used all that much. Caused by either extreme cold or extreme heat, they can be rendered useless by just sitting out in the elements. Exposure to extreme cold can make them brittle and hard causing them to break, while high heat can powder the wipers after a time. That's why we recommend keeping an extra set on hand. Or simply cruise to the Hazelwood Hyundai parts and service department for a new set today. If you need to locate us, Google "auto parts near me," and there we will be!

Automatic Transmissions: Your Hyundai Santa Fe automatic transmission is a sealed unit that won't need any maintenance other than periodically checking the fluid level at 37,500, 75,000, 90,000 and the 112,500 mile mark. If you subject your Santa Fe to extreme driving situations, such as at high speeds or along mountainous grades, or even subjecting it to towing, we would suggest examining the transmission fluid sooner. For best results, and just in case you don't want to get your hands dirty, bring it by the service department at Hyundai of Hazelwood, for a quick check today.

These service schedules and maintenance tips from your Hazelwood Hyundai service advisors and technicians will help provide you with many years and thousands of miles behind the wheel of your new Hyundai Santa Fe SUV. Be sure to stop in and say hello to the entire service staff at your Hyundai of Hazelwood for all your Hyundai car care needs, today.