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Apparently You Need Hyundai’s Permission To Change Your Own Brakes | Carscoops
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This is true for pretty much all cars made in the past 10 years with electric parking brakes. Even more so in the past couple years with complete brake by wire systems now being used. We are starting to get cars in quite frequently where the owner tried to replace the brakes themselves, or flush the brake fluid, and the brakes are no longer working and the dash is lit up like a Christmas tree.
Imagine my (mild) shock after doing my own brakes for 30 years and then coming upon this tidfbit of knowledge JUST after buying parts for my truck.
For anyone else navigating all the misinfo around doing this on a ford truck:
Are you to chant in Latin or Enochian while performing this ritual?
Might as well try both.
I'm trying to figure out how many appendages this procedure requires.
The full complement of an unmodified human. 4
You have to keep reading. They went out and bought the special tools to complete the service but Hyundai locked their account, explicitly stating DIYers are not permitted.
Yes, I got to that part. Many auto manufacturers are the same. An individual can not get access the factory diagnostic software.
Not gonna say you're wrong but I've never seen anyone else do this.
It's pretty easy to put my 2021 Traverse into service mode and retract the parking brake. Honestly, the easiest car I've ever done rear brakes on. I would hope other manufacturers have a feature along those lines, too.
GM until very recently has been fairly serviceable at home. I pulled the engine out of our 2019 to do a timing chain, put it back and it didn't even notice. I was worried the whole time it would have to be towed to a dealer to be reactivated, but nope, nothing.