2002 Hyundai Santa Fe Service Repair Factory Manual (2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005)
Hyundai Santa Fe 2002 Factory Service Repair Manual Download The least expensive of Hyundai’s eight different Santa Fe versions is a front-wheel-drive GL model with a 150-horsepower in-line four and a five-speed manual transmission. For $800 more, you can get a four-speed automatic; and $1000 yet again gets you the 2.7-liter V-6 making 181 horsepower.
A four-wheel-drive powertrain is available only with the V-6 models (for a $1,500 premium). The model designation GLS refers to an option package costing $1,000 over the GL V6 base price.
The super-deluxe Santa Fe LX V6 includes $2,200 worth of options. My tester was the GLS with front-wheel-drive and a heavy-duty towing package ($295). As tested, the vehicle cost $19,759. Creature comforts like CD stereo, air conditioning, remote/keyless entry, power windows and mirrors, fog lamps, and blackout privacy glass are all included with the GLS package. The only important option missing from my tester was the combination
anti-lock brake/traction control system ($595). A vehicle this well equipped for under $20,000 raises the stakes in a very bold way.
The Hyundai Santa Fe may be a serious bargain, but a serious off-roader it is not. Even though I only drove the front-wheel-drive model, I can tell you that a 7.4-inch ground clearance is pretty down to earth in the worst sort of way, and no addition of 4WD can alter that fact. (By.
Hyundai Santa Fe 2002 Factory Service Repair Manual Download
comparison, Volvo’s citified V70 Cross Country wagon boasts 7.5 inches of clearance, for crying out loud.) Plus, the Santa Fe’s chassis is tuned for city-slicker tastes. Its sporty four-wheel-independent suspension is tuned for a smooth if not exactly soft ride. In serious off-road conditions, all that cushy springing tends to jam wheel travel right up to the bump stops.
That might as well be expected from a vehicle based on Hyundai’s top-o’-the-line Sonata sedan. Obviously, Santa Fe has been conceived as an urban cowboy from the outset.
well. Serious, rugged, off-roading has become about as commonplace as dueling with flintlock pistols.
With 78 cubic feet of total cargo space, and 29 cubes with the rear seat in use, the five-passenger Santa Fe actually comes close to rivaling the haulage capacity of seven-seaters like Acura’s MDX and the Mercury Mountaineer/Ford Explorer, which cost nearly twice as.
much. Unlike the aforementioned models, with their hard-edged, knife-creased exterior styling, Santa Fe is rounded, voluptuous, even vaguely bulbous. It is, in fact, a truck rendition of Hyundai’s overtly odd-looking Tiburon sport coupe. I can assure you, however,.
Hyundai Santa Fe 2002 Factory Service Repair Manual Download
On the freeway, I constantly caught myself slipping up to “bear-bait” speeds without even noticing; the engine pulls effortlessly, and the ride is reassuringly stable. What I didn’t do, however, is race the thing. Anyone who requires a 200-plus horsepower SUV to do that is, in my humble estimation, embarrassingly– even pathologically– naive.
Santa Fe LX V6 includes $2,200 worth of options. The Santa Fe may be a serious bargain, but a serious off-roader it is not. Plus, the Santa Fe’s chassis is tuned for city-slicker tastes. Unlike the aforementioned models, with their hard-edged, knife-creased exterior styling, Santa Fe is rounded, voluptuous, even vaguely bulbous. I have every expectation that the 181 horsepower rating of the Santa Fe’s V-6 will inspire wails of woe from most auto writers and macho enthusiasts.
Hyundai Santa Fe 2002 Factory Service Repair Manual Download