Very low miles 1995 Hyundai ELANTRA 1800 cc 16 dohc. CHECK ENGINE LIGHT frequently comes on. Stop engine, retart after light goes off...sometimes goes for hundred miles and three times new timing belt breaks and 3 to 8 valves bend, engine stalls, big repair bill.

From an old gringo retired in Costa Rica. The present engine out of TOTAL
l overhaul, new pistons, valves, all that. The cams assembly inspected by nothing replaced. Earlier, we replaced the 1800cc injector assembly with 1600 injector assembly as told that is same-same. The car was in well-prepared dead-storage for near 12 years awaiting estate
close. Next owner blew engine immediately because only gassed the puppy and did not do anything to engine before driving it away...700 meters and poof. TOTALLY wrecked motor.
After two mechanics, I´ve found one good one, and he´s puzzled on this. We´ve popped three timing belts with usual bent or broken valves. Hyundai in Costa Rica will NOT service any Hyundai over six years old, period, so I´ve got what I´ve got, and he´s honest, speaks no english, but wide reputation for honesty on Hyundai´s. I´ll take your english instructions and go to a PROFESSIONAL translator and translate it properly for him to follow. After third broken belt and a few bent valves only, I figured to change the way I start it. I wait until the CHECK ENGINE idiot light goes OFF, count to ten, and then start. SOMETIMES, after that, the CHECK ENGINE light will go on, usually after starting a gentle to steep hill-climb at 20-30mph. IMMEDIATELY I stop, shut down engine, and restart the engine. It again ¨sounds right,¨ runs right, until the next CHECK ENGINE light goes on, anywhere from 1 to 10 or 15 miles later, and I do the procedure again, again light remains off, engine ¨sounds right,¨ etc. I´m driving it locally only, as the belt pops and damage happened at 40-45mph highway conditions.
If you´ll re-write a step by step mechanic to mechanic thing as full as you want, I´ll have it translated very correctly, take it over to Jose´ , I´ll give the car to him for a while so he can do his mechanical and computer checks which I will have to have translated as that read-out is in english as the car was imported here via USA in 1995.
I´ll be glad to pay you for your time, or however that is done. Please let me know.
If you have a call anywhere USA phone, you can reach me in Costa Rica by dialing1-602-546-7178 ...A Phoenix number, or I can call you direct from here. It´s toll free both way...VOIP phone...Magic Jack...all of we gringos have a number-.--14.00unlimited a year to and from USA to here. From an old gringo retired in Costa Rica. The present engine out of TOTAL l overhaul, new pistons, valves, all that. The cams assembly inspected by nothing replaced. Earlier, we replaced the 1800cc injector assembly with 1600 injector assembly as told that is same-same. The car was in well-prepared dead-storage for near 12 years awaiting estate close. Next owner blew engine immediately because only gassed the puppy and did not do anything to engine before driving it away...700 meters and poof. TOTALLY wrecked motor. After two mechanics, I´ve found one good one, and he´s puzzled on this. We´ve popped three timing belts with usual bent or broken valves. Hyundai in Costa Rica will NOT service any Hyundai over six years old, period, so I´ve got what I´ve got, and he´s honest, speaks no english, but wide reputation for honesty on Hyundai´s. I´ll take your english instructions and go to a PROFESSIONAL translator and translate it properly for him to follow. After third broken belt and a few bent valves only, I figured to change the way I start it. I wait until the CHECK ENGINE idiot light goes OFF, count to ten, and then start. SOMETIMES, after that, the CHECK ENGINE light will go on, usually after starting a gentle to steep hill-climb at 20-30mph. IMMEDIATELY I stop, shut down engine, and restart the engine. It again ¨sounds right,¨ runs right, until the next CHECK ENGINE light goes on, anywhere from 1 to 10 or 15 miles later, and I do the procedure again, again light remains off, engine ¨sounds right,¨ etc. I´m driving it locally only, as the belt pops and damage happened at 40-45mph highway conditions. If you´ll re-write a step by step mechanic to mechanic thing as full as you want, I´ll have it translated very correctly, take it over to Jose´ , I´ll give the car to him for a while so he can do his mechanical and computer checks which I will have to have translated as that read-out is in english as the car was imported here via USA in 1995. I´ll be glad to pay you for your time, or however that is done. Please let me know. If you have a call anywhere USA phone, you can reach me in Costa Rica by dialing1-602-546-7178 ...A Phoenix number, or I can call you direct from here. It´s toll free both way...VOIP phone...Magic Jack...all of we gringos have a number-.--14.00unlimited a year to and from USA to here.