misterh78

I hope Hyundaitech reads this, we really need some direction with this:

Sunday morning the ABS kicked on for no apparant reason, and naturally
we were unable to come to a complete stop. Road conditions were dry,
no sand or dirt in the road. As a result, we bumped the rear bumper a
gentleman in front of us. Our initial thought was the brakes failed.
But we heard a grinding noise while trying to stop, and the front end
was bucking up and down; which I interpret as the ABS noise (grinding)
and the bucking as the vehicle trying to stop on dry pavement (ABS
doing its job pumping the brakes). We had it towed to the local
Hyundai dealership, they were unable to find anything wrong.

So the question that is eating us alive is - "why?" Again, roads were
clean, no dirt or sand. We think it is possible there could have been
oil in the road (it did happen next to a Pep Boys and a Nissan
dealership, but let's be clear here - I am certainly not placing
blame). Obviously the ABS were doing their job, but nothing was so
apparent to set them off. There is a set of railroad tracks on this
particular road, but the distance between the tracks and the incident
is, say, 20 yards (I am the previous owner of an '02 Saturn L300 that
would apply the traction control if I hit railroad tracks, manhole
covers, or pot holes). So our thinking was the railroad tracks set off
the ABS - and set them off for another 20 yards?

I noticed there is an NHTSA recall out there # 05V119000, Hyundai
Recall # 068 for the ESP. Is it possible that over a year later, this
is an issue?

Please help!

-M