2007 hyundai Terracan reviews

Hyundai Terracan CRDTi Limited Edition 2007

This is the first time I have ever written a review of any sort for anything. Surprisingly for me, this is a very positive review to endorse a product rather than to give something a negative review! I have always owned saloon cars (mainly Mercedes) until we, as a family, went to the USA in 2008 for a 3 week holiday driving around the Eastern states of the USA. We hired a large Chevrolet People carrier, and that experience convinced us that the best car for a young growing family is a people carrier/4x4 type vehicle. OK, you have to accept the higher road tax charge, and higher mpg fuel consumption, but having this type of vehicle is such a massive bonus when bringing up a family, it is well worth it. On returning from the States, we bought a brand new Chevrolet Captiva and drove that for 2 years, which was excellent. This confirmed that the SUV/4x4 type cars are best suited to our needs, from the difficulties of putting 4 years olds into child car seats, to ferrying around larger elder pre-teen boys! On selling the Captiva, I bought a second-hand, late 2007 Terracan CRTDi (Auto) Limited Edition in Black for just under £9K with only 33K miles on the clock. I bought it from a National car dealership in August 2010 and have driven it for nearly 6 months now. It has black privacy glass, full leather seats and trim, roof mounted DVD player and all the usual ’Limited’ extra’s. I use this car as a family ’Station Wagon’ rather than a traditional 4x4 role, it’ll never go off-road unless we go camping etc. Basically it’s a "Chelsea Tractor" doing all the usual school run, supermarket shopping trips, general running around and also 1-2 driving holidays a year to France and back from Blackpool, Lancashire. As a road car, I can’t fault it, it is absolutely fantastic, comfortable, very easy to drive, really well built and fairly economical for its size. I am so impressed with the car, I know I will hang on to it for quite some years, so I had a double DIN Pioneer F20BT stereo head unit fitted, to replace the Hyundai stereo, and also give us ’built in’ Sat Nav capability and also excellent blu-tooth mobile phone control. In order to fit this unit, we cut out the coin/pen storage slot that is under the factory fitted car stereo and that gave enough room to accommodate a double DIN stereo/Sat Nav unit. In addition, I fitted parking sensors front and back, and I also replaced the front headlights and Fog lights with HID’s.at the risk of sounding "boy racer’ish", these additions really do enhance the car visually and functionally! I also fitted an engine tune-up chip (bought from a good seller on eBay!) This is definitely worth the investment and immediately make the 2.9ltr diesel powered car feel like a petrol engined car with improved fuel efficiency, whilst giving you extra power, torque and speed; to my surprise, they are so easy to fit and really do work! It will only take you a few tanks of fuel to get your money back! I’ve never been a ’petrol head’ or car person in my life, but I believe splashing out on these additional extras is well worth it. Whilst the Terracan may not have the kudos of other 4x4’s, I sincerely believe this is a gem of a car that can be easily be overlooked because it’s ’Korean’ or a "Hyundai!" As I said, in my fifty years, I’ve never been a petrol head, but I do smile and enjoy driving this machine, which feels like a tank on the road. The selectable 2WD/4WD came into its own during the recent cold snap with ice and snow on the roads. I would recommend that people buy a boot liner to protect the carpet in the boot space, and I would also recommend that people have the underneath sprayed with an anti-corrosion protection like wax-oil or similar. I am normally a ’critical’ and ’perfectionist’ type person (every salesman’s nightmare!), however, the only concern I have had to date was the Terracan steering can seem a little ’loose’ and a little ’tractor-like’, and certainly not as refined as the Captiva’s or other cars I’ve driven. I initially thought my ’Terry’ was faulty, but after a check by the local Hyundai dealership (which is excellent), the steering is fine. I think my concern was caused because the Terracan by my inexperience of 4WD cars. However, now I’ve driven the Terracan for a couple of thousand miles, I’ve got used to it and do not find it to be a problem. I wholeheartedly recommend this car, it’s cheap, not over-engineered, reliable, very well built, tough, comfortable and economical and fantastic value. What else could you ask for?!?!?