Hyundai i20 of Amandeep Singh catches fire near Sonepat on 2014-11-09

Amandeep Singh was travelling with his family from Chandigarh to Delhi on 9th Nov 2014 in his Hyundai i20. They were around Sonepat, when a passer-by waved at him indicating that there was smoke coming from the car. Fortunately, the car had just crossed an intersection and the speed was slow. They were really lucky that everyone got out of the vehicle safely, however, was shocked to see their vehicle in flames just moments after.

After running from pillar to post for 16 days between Hans Hyundai, New Delhi & Hyundai Motor India Limited all they heard from them was that the car caught fire due to some external substance and that they cannot do anything about it. How very convenient on the part of Hyundai! Hyundai sells one of the premium hatchbacks available in the Indian market; it cannot just catch fire while in motion due to “external substance”.

The car was purchased from Hans Hyundai, Moti Nagar, New Delhi about 3 years ago. The car has run a mere 13,000 kms and was serviced at Hans Hyundai service center only a week before the incident took place. It looks to be a case of negligent servicing on the part of Hans Hyundai.

After this incident when he searched the internet, he was shocked to find that this was not an isolated incident of i20 catching fire.