Hey guys, so I've owned my 2018 Hyundai Elantra for around a year at this point and I've put five thousand miles on it
So I wanted to do a one-year ownership update video about my top five likes and top five dislikes about my 2018 Hyundai Elantra
Now, I'm not a real negative person. But I do want to start out with the top five things that I dislike about the car
So my first big complaint about the Hyundai Elantra is that it doesn't really warm up and now I know this is not too big
Of a complaint but on a cold day like today
so right now it's 26 degrees outside and as I've learned from
Heading to school and heading around town if it's like really cold outside
It takes a very significant amount of time for this engine to warm up and for actually to be warm in the cabin
So I I don't have heated seats. So I'm like freezing my butt off for about the first 15 minutes and
Sometimes it takes like all the way until I'm cruising down the highway for about 10 minutes for it to warm up
Which I've noticed is a lot longer of a process than in most cars
So that is one thing that I kind of dislike about this car is that it takes so long to warm up now
Building off of that. I do have another little complaint as far as it comes to like the temperature and stuff
So once the car finally does warm up
My car does not have the automatic climate control since I just bought the SEL trim and with that there's only four
different fan speeds that I can pick between
So there's zero one two
Three and four and basically the difference between these fan speeds is like a huge difference and there's no middle ground
So at at one it's barely on and I don't really see that. It's
Hardly, even on at all
and then if you go up to two then it's on but really not blowing that hard and then if you go to three
It's like triple the force of two
so
Just not enough steps there. Yeah, there's there's no steps
and when you only have four different fan speeds, it's hard to kind of calibrate the different speeds and three is a little
crazy hard, and then four is like
The way so there's really just not enough
Different fan speeds to really keep you the prime temperature all the time
And in addition to that the little fan the temperature controller here
I've noticed that it really doesn't control the temperature very well
So if I have it on max heat, it's really no different than if it's just like half eat
so
That's just a little thing that I've noticed
Now I know I keep going on and on about the cold weather and stuff that I hate about this car when it comes to
The cold weather but another thing that I've noticed that's kind of weird. Is that the temperature
basically, if it goes below 39 degrees those sound a little warning that basically says the roads could be freezing or whatever and
A 39 degrees is not the freezing point
so I think that's a little odd and be it doesn't ever really tell me until I start driving so I'll make it like
Down the block and then I'll start beeping and then for the first like six months of ownership
I really didn't know what was going on and I would think that I'm like about to ramp something or I thought it was the
blind spot monitoring or something like that, but really it was just this temperature the thing in my gauges and
It just doesn't really see what it seems pretty silly. Yeah, and you have to wonder it's like the good people at Hyundai not
Do the translation from Celsius to Fahrenheit
Correctly to know it. Yeah easy point is 30 30 to 39
but next up I want to talk about one of the things that I initially complained about even when I first bought the car I
Knew this was kind of crappy
The SEL trim does not come with push button start. So it has a physical key and
Basically, this key is straight off of like something from the 1990s and it has a separated fob itself
And then the key is just the key with no buttons or anything
Which I think it just looks
Stupid and it looks like it's something from like the 1990s most of the modern cars if it doesn't have smart entry
They integrate the locking buttons on the android key
And that seems to be a lot better of a setup for me than separating it off and it just kind of looks very cheap
All right, and next up on the things that I don't like about my car it has to do with the blind spot monitoring
So I love the blind spot monitoring as a system as a whole. I really love it
I'm glad that I've paid the extra for it
But one of the things I've noticed that's a little quirky about it is that it will actually deactivate
When I get under 20 miles an hour
Which I think that's way too high of a speed threshold
honestly most cars that we review are between about five or less maybe ten miles an hour and I think
and then this car it deactivates a 20 and
When you're doing city driving
I mean under 20 is really when you're wanting to change lanes and everything and then the system
deactivates and if you put on your blinker
It's not going to notify you and you're really good not going to know if someone's in your blind spot
So I think that that's a really odd thing and I would like to be able to change it
But as far as I know, there's really no way to change it
So that's something I noticed that I really don't like
And lastly the thing that I hate the most about my 2018 Elantra has to do with the horn
So the regular horn actually sounds decent it does sound really need different than any other car
And it sounds a lot better than even most in the class really do but then for the locking for some reason
Hyundai decided to use like a different tone and
Basically when you lock it, it sounds like I don't even know like a Prius horn or something
That sounds horrible and it goes meet me and it's honestly just embarrassing. I don't even like I only lock it once
because I don't want to lock it twice if I hit the button twice, it sounds that stupid horn and
It just is embarrassing. I don't even I hate it. So I don't really know why Hyundai decided to do that because the regular horn
Especially because the regular horn is fine and he was like an extra step. Yeah
I think I was very surprised when you know, I first bought it and I loved it twice
it was like B beep and I was like what the heck because I knew the regular horn was fine, but
That's probably I know it's pretty petty but that's one of the things that is just like I don't understand why it's this way
But and moving on from that obviously there are a ton of different things that I like about this car because I did buy it
Obviously, so in my top five things that I really like about this car
Probably the number one thing that I like is that it has Android auto and apple carplay. So a lot of cheap cars they don't
Offer those because they want you to buy it navigation or move up the trim levels
and this car has it on the second to base trim level so I can use navigation and
You know with my apple carplay it now has Google Maps so I have like a satellite view
So it kind of looks like an Audi Audi virtual cockpit type of deal and I really really love it
Also, another thing that I've noticed through owning it
It definitely can fit about four adults in this car very comfortably
So I've taken people places and for adults fit very comfortably in this car. It's a very spacious
Vehicle for this class, you know, it's an EPA
Classified ya know in size sedan and you can definitely benefit from that space like the trunk has tons of room in the back
Like I said four people can ride very comfortably. You know, whenever I've had people in here they've really loved the experience. I
Don't know if this on your list or anything, but I also find these seats to be really
When I get into the more affordable
One that still comes with the cloth seats on the basic trim levels. They typically that is they don't invest in the cushion
No, no, but I do find that. This is a soft seat and
It firm enough the way you want it but also soft enough that you know, I get a backache or something
You know, I do also want to point out one of my top flights about this car is how it rides
So this is definitely not a sporty car. The Civic is the more sporty of this type of class of vehicle
But what I've really grown to appreciate is just how comfortable this car is
So if you're cruising down the highway, it's not loud in this cabin and it is a very smooth car at this point
We've driven a ton of different cars and I can really appreciate that
This car has a very smooth writing quality and it's also very quiet inside the cabin
now in addition to that I do think that this car has a really good sound system for a
affordable vehicle a lot in this class really will give you like a 4 speaker sound system or whatever and
That really just has terrible sound quality
But this car I think it sounds pretty good. I did adjust the bass up a little bit
But for the most part, I think this car sounds really really smash the audio system and that's definitely appreciated in an affordable vehicle
And
Last but not least. I do want to talk about this cars fuel economy
so I have driven it around 5,000 miles and I do want to just
Really give this car an applause for how great has been on gas mileage. So this car has actually rated a 32 combined I think
and
Honestly, I get a lot better than that and I'm very impressed by how this car sips gas
because a lot of the time we'll be on I 75 heading to Richmond on the interstate and
on those trips my car averages around 42 to 45 miles a gallon and
That is just an insanely good fuel economy
And here in the city, it does pretty good, too. I think it does about 35 to 40
Even in the worst conditions. Yeah, never
Get I never have gotten what it's actually rated
Estimate, you know some cars
You're lucky to get to the EPA estimate
It is interesting on this car and everyday driving you end up being
Consistently well above the epa estimate, you know
I was very pleasantly surprised with this car as far as the fuel economy is concerned and
It takes a long time to deplete a tank
I mean, sometimes I get like four or five hundred miles on the tank of gas and that is really impressive
And it's something that I appreciate because I don't have to spend a ton of money on gas
so in conclusion
obviously, there is a reason why I bought this car the pros far outweigh the my little pet peeves that I've talked about in the
Dislikes portion of this video, you know, like I mean the horn locking thing
Yeah, it does aggravate me a little bit, but the fuel economy more than makes up for that and all of the different things
I mean
This car is just a really fantastic
car and I've loved owning it and driving it for the five thousand miles and I look forward to owning it for a
lot of more years and stuff
because this car it really is a fantastic car and
even though I have learned about some of its quirks as every cart has some
This car definitely is a solid all-rounder