2001 santa fe 4cyl stated loosing power on acceleration on up grades but would even out on flats and low grades would not accelerator past 45 pulled into parking lot before total loss of power now won

Jamie Heppner

• 111 Answers
• Posted on Dec 16, 2008

SOURCE: 2003 Santa fe timing belt change

You can drive it till it breaks of course, that will cost much more then replacing it as maintenance though. I would plan to have it changed much sooner then later as you are already past your recomended service time.

SOURCE: how to replace timing belt in 2001 santa fe. What

That depends on if the front motor mount is blocking half of the timing belt . Then you have to have the motor lifted out to change the timing belt . Now that just added at least another 2 hours to the labour hours. In all honesty, now you are looking at a 4 to 6 hours of total work . Now , do you know if it is a timing belt or a timing chain. Timing belt, yes will take about 4 to 6 hours , but a timing chain will take over 8 hours because it is inside the motor.

SOURCE: loss of power/bad smell

One of the things that it could be is that the catalytic converter has rotted away internally. The rust and particle will then clog your muffler causing loss of power. I ran into this at about 140,000 miles on mine. That could be the source of your problem

SOURCE: Santa fe studdering and won't accelerate right? RPM's jump and then steady with continuing studdering?

Engine performance problem causes are many. Try this first.
1. Disconnect the battery cables (both of them)
2. Touch/connect the postive and negative battery cables together for 30 seconds.
3. Reconnect the cables to the battery.
4. Drive vehicle to see if this solved the problem. Let me know what happens.

SOURCE: 2001 kia rio engine looses power

try your crank shaft sensor, sounds like the same problem i had , had crank shaft sensor replaced and it drove fine afterwards. maybe go to auto zone or something and see if that code comes up