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I purchased my Hyundai Certified Used 2020 Limited Palisade with 40,300 miles in Dec 2022. It replaced my 2003 GMC Denali.
I have added some nice accessories like Weather Tech mud flaps, mats, CanvasBack liners, hood wind deflector. I have not had any major issues
except this past summer the A/C stopped cooling. Took to local Hyundai dealer in Delaware (I purchased it in Lancaster PA) and they informed me Hyundai
recorded the VIN as a "BRANDED" title, like salvaged or junk! Long story short we got it resolved and enjoying the car. Does not use any oil but
I am adding a High Flow PCV High Flow Oil Separator to make sure it stays clean.
 
boba1111 said:
I purchased my Hyundai Certified Used 2020 Limited Palisade with 40,300 miles in Dec 2022. It replaced my 2003 GMC Denali.
I have added some nice accessories like Weather Tech mud flaps, mats, CanvasBack liners, hood wind deflector. I have not had any major issues
except this past summer the A/C stopped cooling. Took to local Hyundai dealer in Delaware (I purchased it in Lancaster PA) and they informed me Hyundai
recorded the VIN as a "BRANDED" title, like salvaged or junk! Long story short we got it resolved and enjoying the car. Does not use any oil but
I am adding a High Flow PCV High Flow Oil Separator to make sure it stays clean.
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Welcome aboard! And thank you for signing up. I'm glad you found us. How do you like the Hyundai Palisade in comparison to the GMC Denali? And how did you get the VIN situation resolved?
 
boba1111 said:
I purchased my Hyundai Certified Used 2020 Limited Palisade with 40,300 miles in Dec 2022. It replaced my 2003 GMC Denali.
I have added some nice accessories like Weather Tech mud flaps, mats, CanvasBack liners, hood wind deflector. I have not had any major issues
except this past summer the A/C stopped cooling. Took to local Hyundai dealer in Delaware (I purchased it in Lancaster PA) and they informed me Hyundai
recorded the VIN as a "BRANDED" title, like salvaged or junk! Long story short we got it resolved and enjoying the car. Does not use any oil but
I am adding a High Flow PCV High Flow Oil Separator to make sure it stays clean.
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How are you liking the mud flaps, floor mats and liners? Did the hood wind deflector make any changes to outside wind noise?
 
Hi Sal: Well those 2 questions are LONG answers. But for the short answer, the Palisade has the same interior storage capacity as the Denali.
But the Denali is built on a truck frame and rides a good bit higher. I adjusted easily. As far as the VIN issue, apparently the original PA owners received an incorrect "branded" title in PA like in Oct 2019 2 weeks after they purchased the vehicle. We are guessing that our vehicle VIN was incorrectly typed in by a junkyard or whoever? We did not know any of this until several months after we moved to Delaware to retire at our beach home and transfer vehicle titles and registrations to DE. Carfax shows that this mistake was corrected at that time. Whatever source DE DMV used to check our title returned "BRANDED" and we had the PA dealer we purchased from work with DE DMV correct this. We were issued a "transfer" title. Now, months later, we wanted to have Preston Hyundai here in DE service our A/C and they come back and tell us Hyundai sees the VIN as a "BRANDED" title also and will not honor any warranties. We have Zurich extended warranty and they saw the same. So we go to Hyundai Customer Service and explain situation. They want written statement from PA DMV and DE DMV along with copies of our DE title, original sales document with VIN.
We sent a PDF of the new DE Title “transfer” and copies of the emails from PA and DE DMV, copy of our original SALES document to Hyundai CS.
Finally about a month later, they emailed that they have removed the “BRANDED” status and warranties restored. We confirmed with Preston Hyundai here that its now showing clear.
We are HOPING that all other sources that store VIN and title status get corrected as well.
And FWIW, after the DE dealer drained and refilled our A/C its working fine!
 
Victor:
The mud flaps, floor mats are GREAT!. I am not sure that the hood wind deflector made any difference on noise. I wanted to protect the hood from "stuff" hitting it.
I did order and add little wind deflectors by both outside mirrors to reduce wind noise. Anyway I am not bothered by any noise!
 
boba1111 said:
Hi Sal: Well those 2 questions are LONG answers. But for the short answer, the Palisade has the same interior storage capacity as the Denali.
But the Denali is built on a truck frame and rides a good bit higher. I adjusted easily. As far as the VIN issue, apparently the original PA owners received an incorrect "branded" title in PA like in Oct 2019 2 weeks after they purchased the vehicle. We are guessing that our vehicle VIN was incorrectly typed in by a junkyard or whoever? We did not know any of this until several months after we moved to Delaware to retire at our beach home and transfer vehicle titles and registrations to DE. Carfax shows that this mistake was corrected at that time. Whatever source DE DMV used to check our title returned "BRANDED" and we had the PA dealer we purchased from work with DE DMV correct this. We were issued a "transfer" title. Now, months later, we wanted to have Preston Hyundai here in DE service our A/C and they come back and tell us Hyundai sees the VIN as a "BRANDED" title also and will not honor any warranties. We have Zurich extended warranty and they saw the same. So we go to Hyundai Customer Service and explain situation. They want written statement from PA DMV and DE DMV along with copies of our DE title, original sales document with VIN.
We sent a PDF of the new DE Title “transfer” and copies of the emails from PA and DE DMV, copy of our original SALES document to Hyundai CS.
Finally about a month later, they emailed that they have removed the “BRANDED” status and warranties restored. We confirmed with Preston Hyundai here that its now showing clear.
We are HOPING that all other sources that store VIN and title status get corrected as well.
And FWIW, after the DE dealer drained and refilled our A/C its working fine!
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Yes, the interior size of the Palisade is bigger than it looks from the outside. Glad to hear you got used to the lower driving position. It's still pretty good compared to most of the vehicles on the road. And I'm glad to hear you got the VIN situated. That would have been one heck of a problem...
 
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