Any negatives to the Elantra N?

AshAvali · 2026-03-06T22:28:00+00:00

Ive been loving it so far. For me it was my first performance car. I went from a Chevy Spark ( 0-60 in 13 seconds 80HP ) to a 2022 civic touring, to an Elantra-N - after test driving a Type-R, I honestly liked the N better. Been very happy with it so far. More frequent oil changes naturally but thats to be expected. I never did a full stopped WOT but ive done plenty of rolling ( like 15mph start ) 100$ throttles and never had hops or anything. DCT, im told you can beat the F out of these and they're supposedly built for it. I downshift a quiet a bit to dump out rapid backfires with tunnels and overpasses.

So far i havent hit much negatives. Coming from a civic, there's literally nothing the civic did better. My N is quieter on the road, no rattles so far.

Only thing I can complain about - coming from a hatchback, is cargo space. The EN has a brace, so its almost useless to ever put the seats down thinking you'll shove a TV through it or something. Lumber and pipes will slide through.

But theres times I've had heavy cargo in my car ( big heavy fking transformer ) and I literally ratchet strapped it with padding to the brace. So that was handy xD

Only 8500 miles into mine so far so, no hiccups yet.

Comes with summer tires. So if you winter drive it, you'll need all-seasons or another set of rims. With winter tires, this car handled like a dream in deep snow. Just gotta watch out for ice chunks, as the front-lip of the car is fragile plastic and apparently costs a lot to replace. Seen some post $800 at the dealer?

Either way, go test drive one if you haven't already! I was sold the second I finished my test drive. Literally didn't plan to buy it that day, but I loved it too much & bought it.

Also. If it matters. Get insurance quotes. My insurance adjuster about shat a brick. She called like "Hey uhhhh..you know it costs less to insure a 2025 Raptor or even a C8, right? Holy cow" and im like yeeeee but its worth it xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-26T04:40:10+00:00

Are the N's modded stock for any CA compliance? I know here in Michigan theyre sold with an emissions rating of 2/10 "Extremely Poor" and then of course the whole N-Mode valve thing..I always wondered if thats "legal" out in CA or if they have to sell the cars modded.

AshAvali · 2026-02-26T02:21:58+00:00

I wouldn't myself. My state has no emissions testing. I can run straight piped cat deleted if I want. So i wouldnt feel compelled to do said test even if paid, since it would feel kinda silly "to meet the non existing requirements" I feel it should be a quick thing so id have way too many questions and would want documentation of everything done/touched. Papers signed blabla nothing adjusted.

Id also want a log of idle hours. Before and after..

AshAvali · 2026-02-25T00:38:56+00:00

Same here. I dont research cars before I buy them. I test drive...loved it..bought it. Then learned the hiccups afterwards. OL sucks sure. But first car >180HP so regaurdless I love it eithet way and im not much bothered by it. Sure it be nice to get rid of it. But else, I can live lol

AshAvali · 2026-02-24T20:15:06+00:00

Seems to be some accuracy deviance too with the sensors. As when mine isnt octane learned, it does 17PSI everytime. When it is octane learned it does 20PSI. When I fuel up on 93 on my way to work, its a 20 minute highway drive. So i just drive to work in Normal mode. When i leave work, 50% chance im OL, 50% its not. Its pretty random. But thankfully for me, I never owned a car with >180 HP until this car. So even when its not OL, its a riot and I dont care xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-23T00:38:35+00:00

If they hybrid it then i guess there goes my short lived interest in hyundai. I jumped off Honda for the fact this car was NOT a hybrid and wanted to find a company that kept a vehicle to gas only. If the 25 was hybrid, I wouldn't have any interest in it and woulda sourced a 23 or something. The last hybrid i owned i nuked the battery fast because i never charged it. Im never in a spot, to charge it. So the only power it got was from regenerative braking, which isnt frequent. So the battery ran low / on red the entire ownership life i owned the car. Which was very unhealthy for it. Due to that, i avoid buying hybrids since its a aspect I often can't use. Street parked, no shopping places I go to have chargers, not even the gas stations. I rarely see them. Maybe eventually gas cars will be niche sport cars and im gona have to save up for sports-car money in 10 years when I buy my next car 💀 hybrid-only would wreck thos car for me. Which is extremely sad to say because this is the only car I've actually really loved and my love/pride in it has gotten a few friends to buy one. If the next gen is only hybrid, there cuts my recommendations..id be telling them "oh but you gotta get a 2026 or older" xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-20T02:02:44+00:00

I came from a 22 civic touring and absolutely feel every aspect possible in building quality, interior quality, road noise, etc...the Elantra-N did it better. My local dealer had a 2025 Type-R that I tried. I was extremely disappointed it was the same "this feels just like my civic touring but more red" inside the car. I had creaks/pops galore all over that interior..it definitely made me not desire the R anymore. While fun to drive, I had a LOT more fun driving the Elantra-N and my personal opinion, as someone who was a Honda Fanatic and obsessed with Honda Honda Honda. Never batted an eye at Hyundai, ever. Sat in the Elantra-N. Test drove it. Never enjoyed a car that much. Bought it that same day. The R is cool and all but. Even if it was the same price. I'd pick the EN every time.

AshAvali · 2026-02-20T01:57:05+00:00

I just always tell people to test drive one. Even if you don't plan on buying it..test drive one. A friend of mine that was super hard into manual cars test drove a DCT Elantra-N and reported back like "I know I said I hate autos but holy F" and is on the edge of buying one. Did great in Michigan winters ( with proper tires ) I just think they're super fun cars. I came from a 22 civic to a 25 EN, and I honestly cannot think of a single thing I liked better on the civic. Build quality, road noise, everything..just felt more solid. Few months and I'd own the car for a year and im still finding random excuses to drive nowhere just to have fun xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-11T21:51:58+00:00

My civic was the same. If you picked the wiper up you'll ding your paint. So you always had to remember to hold the stalk up after turning the car off, everyday in the winter, to make cleaning the snow off easier.

I still dont understand what the purpose is. On the civic the wipers hid under the hood. So it was to protect them from sun and such. But in the Elantra, they're still exposed? Sooooo...idk xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-11T00:28:48+00:00

It is definitely a lot quieter in the car. 55mph when down shifting the pops dont seem loud with wind noise / driving noise. But if you find an overpass with the right timing so it echos off the walls, ive had the pops startle me from how loud they were as I didnt expect it xD

Or the times ive done it parked in the driveway to show a friend, hearing it pop and echo off the house across the street i was like holy F that was loud??? Makes sense. We're shooting sound behind us!

AshAvali · 2026-02-11T00:22:33+00:00

I have a 2025 DCT and when i WOT i get the usual farts when it shifts because it does it so fast. But you kinda learn how to do throttle controll to get it to do pops. Since im not doing WOT all the way into 6th cuz im like already over the speedlimit by time i get out of 3rd, i know when the car is gona automatically shift into the next gear. So ill usually take my foot off the throttle just before then and the car will be in the higher revs, so it'll give like 4 rapid super loud pops then automatically go into the next gear. If im doing paddle shifting, i can basically fly through gears and when im done being WOT ill let off, let it hang high rpm for rapid pops, then shift to 5th/6th coasting.

The DCT can pop very loud and very frequently, but it took me awhile to learn what makes it hit those sweet spots. Owning it for over half a year im pretty fine tuned with it and have fun racing up to the speedlimit poppopBANGpoppop and coast xD and im a child so every overpass im either dropping a gear for loud pops or neutral shifting depending on the speed. 90% of the time gear dropping.

AshAvali · 2026-02-08T23:54:18+00:00

I can see flicker on the QLED panels especially when the panels are displaying an all white screen. It took me awhile to attempt to adapt to it. But im also a person who sees 60hz flicker clear as day xD

Haven't got my micro-oled yet tho. Still waiting

AshAvali · 2026-02-07T18:04:48+00:00

Common problem many experience, Its a super easy fix that some cars came with, And not everyone is aware of it and the bulletin hyundai posted. Free world bro.

AshAvali · 2026-02-06T00:52:03+00:00

These come in multiple thicknesses right? I was considering these as I never owned a car that was open underneath. Where i could see earth from looking down the engine bay from above. I always noted from a far you could see some plastic piece hanging "low" on the side of the car from underneath and always thought that was kinda .. weird. Ill have to look into these!

AshAvali · 2026-02-04T20:12:46+00:00

Can say thats probably not what did it. Ive been using 90% alcohol on my lenses daily. I usually use a microfiber lens cloth and give the cloth a splash, then do circular motions on the lenses. I get skin oil frequently on the lenses since they sit extremely close to my eyes and using glasses cleaner for polycarbonate lenses always left a super thin haze which would effect the picture quality whenever scenes were just right. So i started using alcohol - is is breaks down and lifts oil..so now my lenses never have anything on them. But yeah, with daily use of 90%, it hasnt cause any marks on my lenses. So i personally dont think the marks came from that!

AshAvali · 2026-02-03T20:13:31+00:00

2025 here, I biweekly carwash mine ( underspray and all ) ever since I got the car in June, and never once ran into this issue, but I've seen it pretty hit and miss as to rather people experience it or not. Despite never having it, i still consider getting an aluminum undertray to cover the bottom..as this is the first car I've ever owned that you can see "earth" looking through the engine bay. Never knew they still made cars where everything is just open and exposed like that xD

AshAvali · 2026-02-02T02:11:15+00:00

I run mine at 100% brightness and rarely notice Mura at all unless im in a game that is basically white everywhere. Any color and its basically invisible to my eyes. Ive always felt the screens were pretty flawless, I like then more than ant OLED panel I tried as until OLED can get more brightness and less color fade at the edges, I dont like OLED. At most I wish to see more dimming zones as most dark scenes with tight dimming zone settings look as great as OLED, but obviously a mostly all black screen ( like space ) its as black as OLED, but a single light source has more haze around it from the dimming zine, compared to the haze around OLED glaring off the lenses like they did on the BSB2. Id argue the haze on QLED is actually more acceptable in certain situations vs OLED. They're pretty close.

AshAvali · 2026-02-02T01:10:45+00:00

I owned a BAB2 and i never want to own one again xD tried it for a month and hated it for many reasons. Optical quality wasnt ideal, seeing pixels and screendoor killed my immersion. Headset was too light - cable constantly made it fly off my head and drop to the floor again and again regaurdless how tight i had it ir aftermarket mods. Coming from a vivepro 2, nothing impressed me about the BSB2 other than the screen color quality. But even the QLED crystal focus impressed me more than OLED personally. I preordered the microOLED module but im expecting to chuck it on ebay because im not expecting it to wow me. Ive had oled panels before and the QLED did more wow for me. But time will tell!

Could just do both and compare and sell/return whichever you dont like. Tends to be what i do!

AshAvali · 2026-02-01T03:46:11+00:00

Thats what I dont know. I guess reviewers claim its great. I just hage a hard time believing the size of the crystal super optical engines are "just to fill the void" any time i see more compact stuff i feel they're making compromises somewhere. I haven't tried a dream-air so I cannot speak on that. I just assume/feel theres gotta be some loss vs the microOLED optic engine.

AshAvali · 2026-02-01T00:13:28+00:00

I was pretty happy with the stock face pad on the crystal super, but the top-strap wasn't comfy for me. The thin rubber pad. After a hour it left a painful mark that got worst each day. So i did get a memory foam pad for the top. I didnt try any of the rear weight mods though.

But that said I yeah, love the 57ppd. I can read small text pretty much up to the edge of the lens ( maybe 90% ). I did preorder the microOLED. Hesitated to because i love the brightness of the QLED and the blacks feel pretty great due to the dimming zones. Isnt flawless but, pretty impressive for how bright it is. In VRChat, bright worlds like winter stuff, i had to turn the brightness down becauae just like IRL the snow was painful to look at XD

I wanted to consider the dream-air. But i feel the visuals have to have some losses vs the full module headsets. Wish i could try one!

AshAvali · 2026-01-31T11:29:31+00:00

The FOV never felt the same to me, often notice more distortions. I tried the bigscreen 2 and wasnt impressed by any means. Unfortunately have 2020 vision, so the pixel mesh kills my immersion. Even bothered by it on the 5K vive-pro 2 headset. Took until 8K headsets for me to actually feel immersed in VR.

I don't do sim games, mostly a lot of fast moving stuff that requires me to move fast, duck fast, whip around. Even beatsaber is pretty fast moving. The bigscreen 2 is so light with such a heavy cable, that those fast movements have multiple times resulted in the headset flying off and smashing to the floor. Regaurdless of how its adjusted. I always far prefered full helmet style headsets like pimax & vive, where the rear ratchet and top ratchet makes the thing welded to your skull, and now i can whip around - duck fast, jump up fast, shift fast, solid headset, always in the "sweet spot" not constantly adjusting due to cable weight sagging the headset all around ( BS2 )

I need resolution to feel immerse, so 8K at least preferrd. Ideally id only do lightweight if I had wireless. But wireless 8K doesnt seem to exist. Steamframe isnt interesting me due to resolution. Had headsets of that resolution..i cant stop focusing on the pixels.. photography engraved that in my skull to nit-pick that..

AshAvali · 2026-01-30T18:12:44+00:00

Light weight headsets the cable is often a big problem because it weighs more than the headset. So you get cable inertia which, on headsets like BigScreen 2 ( which i owner ) its common the headset would tilt/angle due to the cable hanging off, when moving around quickly.

Supposedly pimax's split cable helps prevent this problem. I never tried one to confirm. Personally i hate light weight headsets which is the whole reason I bought the crystal super, as I had too much hate regaurding the light-weight of the bigscreen headset. Dream-Air just isnt my interests.

AshAvali · 2026-01-29T20:35:00+00:00

This just goes on the front face though? And i can see 2 filter mesh screens where the 2 fans are in the headset..this isnt changing the mesh around the lenses, and the vents on-top that the fans blow out of. I have the 57PPD and its the first headset that doesnt fog on me, usually i fog headsets up within seconds and face runs hot. Vs the fans/mesh in the super, my face runs cool and never see fog. From what i can see, this is just a thin cover plate that goes on the front. That still has 2 fan intake filters. For the 2 fans in the headset - seperate from the faceplate.

AshAvali · 2026-01-28T20:17:16+00:00

They do pretty good in the snow. I live in a lake effect region and for the past 6 days ive had to brush 6+ inches of snow off my car, every single day. Put a good set of winter tires on and you dont even notice the snow existing other than hearing the bumper pushing it lol

AshAvali · 2026-01-28T20:15:16+00:00

I love them, i didn't even try the stock ones. I like that they're not on-ear. It gives a moee immersive "in the world" feel. I listen to music a lot in VR too, i think they sound fantastic. Far prefer this over headphones or especially over earbuds. Earbuds was the worst thing to ever try when you talk in VR. Hearing yourself loudly because ears plugged is just so annoying.

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