Hyundai Atoz - any info?

[Danblez]

Hi all,

 

Just looked at a very tidy Hyundai Atoz with a work mate. T plate, 85 K, MOT till January, mint interior for 500 snotters. Always quite liked the look of these and this one looks very tidy but what should I be looking out for?.

 

Picutre does not represent actual potential purchase

[face]

I had one for a couple of weeks in Greece last year - newer shape than that pic though. It was alright, plenty of room the me, the pregnant missus and my 2 daughters. Alright to drive too, and had the added bonus of getting us out of a situation with a crashing aeroplane - seriously

[maxpower]

girl at work got 1 on "s" plate when new.. and i had a few tries of it... i found it quite a good little car and it is surprisingly roomy for a small car

 

though her's was too new to have had any major mechanical faults at the time.

[Negative Creep]

Not really much help but apparently Hyundai UK had to send a fax with a diagram explaining why the original Atos name wouldn't be a good idea in the UK

[Mr H Sceptre]

and had the added bonus of getting us out of a situation with a crashing aeroplane - seriously

 

 

What happened???

[ashmicro]

Not much goes wrong, but if it doesn't run smoothly, check the wiring to the manifold absolute pressure sensor and/or the dizzy. Known issue, Hyundai dealer round here got sick of fixing them.

[face]

and had the added bonus of getting us out of a situation with a crashing aeroplane - seriously

 

 

What happened???

 

We were in Kefalonia, and there was a grass fire - as they always seem to have. Bloody great fire fighting helicopters and planes all over the sky, including the local island based 1950 efforts. We were sitting stationary on a road while the fire plane did it's thing - people everywhere doing the same, the pilot then clipped a power line 100 metres in front of us, barrell rolled over the top of the car, and landed in a fireball in the hotel car park 100 metres behind us. Cue mass panic amongst locals and tourists - meaning I had to weald the Atoz at speed packed with terrified, screaming family through the panic, smoke, cars, fire engines, fires, power lines etc to some sort of safety (my folks lived there at the time)

 

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=46473

 

Lots of sympathy for the pilot here: http://goinggreek.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=8421 but not from me, he was reckless at best and could have easily killed lots of people, most importantly me and my family.

 

This is from that forum link:

 

 

The guy had flown the plane down into the shallow valley almost taking the route of the right hand arrow, then climbed a few metres from the ground up over the road, clipping the power cable and crashing. We were sitting approx half way along that middle arrow.

 

So big up for the Atoz

[ashmicro]

^^^ FUCK!

[Guest]

We managed (at old Uni) to get one to tip over going through the underpass at Lancaster Uni. 4 up we were. Got a massive bollocking for it, we did.

 

I wasn't driving.

[Barry Cade]

I've failed a few for rotten front subframes- easy to change though, and pretty reasonable from Hyundai.

[vicsmith]

Had a lot of hyundais from that time pass through my old lot, including a few of these, never gave any trouble, in fact the only thing Hyundais used to let me down on were, occasionally, distributors, which has been alluded to in an earlier post, and these can be time consuming to source second hand, but we`re only talking a week to track one down instead of 5 minutes for a Fiesta. You need to buy 2nd hand, too, dealer prices for distributors are, unlike subframes, not at all reasonable. I`ve always thought if you buy an old Hyundai, start looking for a 2nd hand dizzy before you need one, do that and there`s not a lot to catch you out.

[oldford]

Great name for a little car, it doesn't just get you from A to B, it gets you from A to Z.

[Danblez]

Cheers for the info peeps will find out the score tomorrow.

[retrogeezer]

Kefalonia is a lovely island....hope to go back there soon (last went in 1991!)

[lovejoy]

Hi Danblez, a bit late with this, but better late than never: this pic was posted previously by me, but it's relevant, so here tis

 

the silver 1998 Atoshite has been most reliable, very few issues, nearly 120 K on it now, the biggest problem we had was a fractured wire that goes into a 4-pin plug at the base of the distributor, seems thats a common fault here, no doubt exacerbated by the atrocious roads here.

This one is Auto, and there are DEFINATELY issues with both the Auto box and the semi- auto version you can get in UK.

however, ours never missed a beat.... touch wood !

 

The white one is what i would term a "cross-over" model, in that it has Amica steel wheels, and speedo, and different headlight/indicator units, albeit the same overall shape, and a simpler grille, but not the same as the "dollar-grin" Amica.

It purports to be a 2003 model, you never got these earlier "wardrobe-on-wheels" shape by then, as the re-styled Amica had already replaced it, so I guess this was a runout model.....(these are still badged as an " ATOS +" over here), this one is manual 5-speed, only 39K on de clock, but personally I find the auto a lot more easy to drive generally. Definitely Atoshite !

[lovejoy]

you may find this link to the Hyundai forum of interest too - a seperate section for AtoZ & Amica's

http://www.hyundai-forums.com/f91-amica-atoz-forum.htm

Enjoy !