Hyundai Santa Fe Relays

Not automatically. The Santa Fe sold in South Africa as SM, CM, DM and TM, and five- and seven-seat derivatives differ well beyond the third-row seat itself — floor pan, trim, glass and rear HVAC parts all follow the seating configuration. Send us the generation code off your VIN plate and we will confirm it either way before anything is dispatched.

The VIN is the single most useful thing — a photo of the plate is fine. Failing that, the generation code and the engine code off the block. The Santa Fe ran as SM, CM, DM and TM, so the generation is what narrows the search.

Only if it is a CRDi diesel. That is the single biggest difference between the relay layout on a diesel and a petrol Hyundai — the Kappa and Gamma petrol cars have no glow plugs and therefore no glow plug relay at all. If a diesel is hard to start cold, that relay is the first place to look.

The pattern we see most is a no-start with the fuel pump silent, a loud click from the fuse box, cooling fans stuck permanently on or off, or an electrical fault that comes and goes with no obvious trigger. Intermittent is the word that most often means relay.

Get a free quote through our form for exact pricing on your model. Most common Hyundai relays are inexpensive parts; the bigger variable is diagnosis time to work out which one has failed, since several sit in the same engine bay fuse box and look identical.

Not necessarily, and this is worth checking before you buy anything. A click without crank means the relay is energising but not passing enough current to the starter solenoid — and a tired battery mimics that exactly. We check battery voltage under load and the earth straps before condemning the relay.

Work off the diagram on the underside of your own fuse-box lid rather than a diagram from the internet, because air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned derivatives fit different relays and facelift cars occasionally moved a slot. To test, swap it with an identical relay of the same rating from a non-critical circuit such as the horn and see whether the fault follows.