2006 Hyundai SONATA consumer reviews

First I must say this car probably saved my life. I was Tboned in an intersection after someone ran a red light and I walked away completely un harmed. Even after the hit the car still drove fine (had to move it out of the intersection). Sadly it was toatled in the accident but I would recommend it to anyone on this alone. That aside this was my first car I personally bought and owned. Great styling and the V6 model has pretty decent performance, took it up to the mountains and besides the fact its a heavy car it handled well. That being said gas mileage around town was around 18mpg but did much better on the freeway. Had very little issues reliability wise. I started to have electrical gremlins involving the headlights before my accident. Never actually could figure out what it was (likely grounding issue with a wire somewhere) but had to replace my bulbs a few times cause of it. My door lock actuators also started to die near the end most of these issues seemed temperature dependent really hot or really cold messed with it a lot. Though the car never let me down and always ran fine. I drove it across country (Washington to Georgia) and it did it great, even after hitting a big pot hole in Illinois (probably bent a rim but never checked because I got in my accident not long after) it was great. I moved onto to a much sportier car but this was my first car I owned and always has a special place in my heart. I can recommend this car to someone no problem.

I bought my "06" Sonata V6 new in November of "05" and was one of the first to buy it after reading reviews on it.. I now have 56k on it and have had no problems at all. Very reliable, very smooth quiet ride. I am 71 years old and have owned many cars in my lifetime.. This is the BEST car I have ever owned.. bar none. I keep her garaged and polish it almost every day.. Could not be better.. Hyundai makes great quality cars.

I bought my V6 Sonata w/~20k miles on it. It never gave me any trouble except for the sun-visor issues, (which was common for this year model. seems they all want to droop, but I replaced mine for a measly $60.) I drove mine to about 70k miles and the only things I changed were the tires and the oil/filter, air filter too. Unfortunately, I was leaving for work one morning and another driver decided to go through a STOP sign without stopping. He broke my car :( I really liked that car! So I'm going shopping for another one. As well as it was doing during the time I had mine, I felt like I was going to get another 100k out of it. Just my opinion though. I never felt cheated in the power train, as it always accelerated very well. The combined mileage for me was always around a good 27mpg. If you drive it rough and are a lead-foot, you will get less. At the current gas prices (around $3.50 a gal), I could go back and forth to work for about $36 a week. That's driving 30 to 35 mins one way. Except for the dog that tried to chew through my front grill, the exterior held up very nicely. Nothing fell off and the original paint kept it's shine. The interior took me a short while to get used to, like any vehicle. I did not like the drivers seat at first, then learned how to adjust it to my back. The cruise control works well on the steering wheel's right side with volume and radio mode control on the left side. The only improvement I could think of for the steering controls would be to add an ON/OFF switch for the radio to make it a perfect control. (Nothing's ever perfect right!) Where I live the temperatures can get over a hundred degrees for long stretches in the summer. And NO, it's not a dry heat, lol. The humidity is just as unbearable. Walk outside and you feel like you've been hit in the face with an open oven. The Sonata's air conditioning never failed me. And though the "feels like" temperature outside would be 110 degrees F, I kept cool inside my car on those drives back and forth to work. I happen to like a lot of trunk space in my car and this one happens to have just that. If you find you need a bit more space, the rear seats will fold down for you too. Not a feature on a lot of sedans I've seen. Ok, there is one thing I don't like about this (and other) cars. I like an antenna to be off the glass, not on it. I feel you get better reception that way. All car makers are going this way though. To make the glass "embedded" antennas work a little better they are equipped with amplifiers before they ever get to your radio. If the amplifier fades, so does your reception. I think mine began to fade before the accident and I was going to replace it with a better antenna. That's just a personal peeve with me. All in all this is (was) a great car and I'm going to look for another one. Just take a look at Consumer Reports summary on this vehicle and you'll see the difference, most hold up very well!

I have this car since 2005. I have had only two issues with the car. Last year the drive belt broke on the rear window, and 2 summers ago the a/c had to be replaced. The car has 96000 miles on it. I feel for a v-6 the mileage is great. 24mph and 29 hwy. I love this car and wish I could keep it. I would recommend this car to anyone.

love my sonata.. only complaints is the gas miles, interior dash boards looks cheap , broke my sunvisor. driven cars since 1980 never had to replace a sunvisor before, minor issue but odd enough to mention. love the stereo, how the car rides, very comfortable woule recommend to anyone!

2006 Sonata with 38,000 miles had a defective part in hydraulic system; failure with the tensioning system. When the car was passed from father to daughter due to death 4 months earlier, the $1000 cost was not covered by warranty and corporate would not participate in any solution even though it was a defective part. Not customer oriented at all and they lost this customer forever.

I bought my Sonata New with a 2.4 engine, I can't say enough about this car, it's Awesome ! gets around 29 miles P/G The Best car I ever owned I put 115000, miles on it, never had to do any major repair work on it, other than, Brakes, tires & oil changes ( very important) still rides and handles like brand NEW. I give it "10 STARS"

I bought my car brand new in September 2006. The first five years was good once the warranty expired the airbag light came on; it came on because I need a passenger weight sensor. The dealer wanted nearly $1,300; i declined i could buy be another used car for that or put a down payment on a new one. This experience make me not want another Korean car again. If i would have bought a Toyota I doubt I would be having these problems.

All 4 struts and 3 of the mounts were replaced before 40,000 miles (each of the struts at different times). At 100,000, they need to be replaced again. There has been a clicking sound from the engine when it's cold weather and the engine is cold (sounds like lifter noise). I took it to the dealer 3 times and even left it overnight one time and they said they couldn't hear it. I have a hearing problem and I can hear it inside the car even. The performance is good and the gas mileage was around 27 at first but not at a little over 100k, it's dropped to 23.

Over all, this is a great car. It's smooth, quiet, comfortable, is good looking, and has good power (I have the v6 engine). The only way it has disappointed me is with the mpg. The EPA rating is 20 highway, 30 city. It's true that if you go 50-65 miles per hour on the highway, it will get 30 miles to the gallon, but get up into the 70-75 mph range and the gas mileage goes over a cliff. At those speeds I only get about 25 mpg. As someone else mentioned, the city gas mileage is also less than advertised, about 16 mpg or so for me. (I mean real city driving, with lots of stop lights). The car's greatest strength is it's value. It's very near toyota quality for quite a bit less money than you would pay for a Camry of the same age and mileage. I bought my car a little over two years ago with 89,000 miles on it, and it has 140,000 miles on it now. The only trouble it has had is that just recently the air bag light came on. I haven't bothered to get it checked out yet.