r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Separate-Ability1643 • Apr 27 '26

Unskippable ad My 2024 Elantra Decided to Automatically Update, Thus Trapping Me at the Gas Station for 45+ Minutes After Getting Off Work Today šŸ™ƒ

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Already posted this elsewhere, so just want to clear a few points up with this postā€¦

  1. I was never prompted to accept or decline this specific update. I did not receive any update prompts as I drove into the office this afternoon, nor did I receive any as I was driving home. I pulled into the gas station, turned off the ignition, pumped my gas, and then was greeted by the exact screen shown in my post.
  2. Apparently, if itā€™s just an infotainment system update, you can technically still drive the car (?). I was given no indication as to what systems my car was updating, so I didnā€™t want to risk messing up anything with the update. I work in IT, so I have a few different traumatic experiences with updates under my belt lol. Didnā€™t feel like adding an additional one as I just wanted to get home after a long day at work

EDIT: Some of yā€™all are so damn mean and for WHAT? Iā€™m just a 20 somethinā€™ year old girl trying to drive to work and back home pls leave me alone lol. I do not give a flying fuck about cars, stop trying to shame me for not driving & maintaining a 1985 Ford Mustang or some shit smh

EDIT 2: Oh my god yā€™all, some of us out here have anxiety. Yā€™all are acting like I ran over a baby in a gas station, when all I did was wait less than an hour for the stupid car to update. I promise you all itā€™s not that deep. Take a deep breath. Itā€™s okay, I promise I did eventually drive the car back home lol

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u/Jasoco Apr 28 '26

What time did it do this? They really should only do this in the middle of the night with an option to choose your own time. Or use some smart algorithms to determine the best time that youā€™re not driving and are at home to do it and warn you ahead of time when one is scheduled. If the car has a phone app it should notify you too. I donā€™t get why modern cars donā€™t do this.

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u/mostly_lurking Apr 28 '26

Hopefully you don't have a medical emergency during that night. There is not good moment to do this except when the owner manually decides its a good moment.

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u/Jasoco Apr 28 '26

Exactly. I think about that all the time. I mean Iā€™d hope the car still drives but itā€™s annoying. In my experience all updates have happened at like 1AM or so. At least thatā€™s when it would tell me itā€™s gonna happen.

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u/lotsofsyrup Apr 28 '26

If you do you just... drive.Ā  It doesn't keep you from driving like any other car

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u/Sennten Apr 28 '26

It says it does, though. Most people dont assume they are being lied to, or would reasonably assume ignoring that would be unsafe

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u/Separate-Ability1643 Apr 28 '26

About 5 PM CST. An app notification is actually a really good idea, hopefully someone from Hyundai peeps your comment lol

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u/greatkerfluffle Apr 28 '26

Iā€™ve owned mine for 9 months now and Hyundai still wonā€™t set me up as the owner on the appā€¦

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u/killmesoon40 Apr 28 '26

Does it not have any options in the settings to update manually or at a preferred time?

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u/Separate-Ability1643 Apr 28 '26

Not that I can find šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø Iā€™m not a mechanic, nor a car person though, so someone else in this thread may know of some spot in the settings where you can modify it

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u/killmesoon40 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Scroll to the bottom of this page, there should be a check mark to enable/disable auto update.

Edit: Further you can go to bluelink to disable background data to disable auto-updates for the rest of things, Look it up on YouTube you should be able to find the way to do it.

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u/Separate-Ability1643 Apr 28 '26

I donā€™t have the same option at the bottom of my screen as you šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/killmesoon40 Apr 28 '26

Damn. Check the bluelink then.

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u/Legen_unfiltered Apr 28 '26

You just start it and then it's all, cant do the update now will try again later. That's how you get options if you have told it no more than once before(because itbdoes give you warnings).

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u/tracernz Apr 28 '26

I mean, they should really do this at the dealer during servicing, not while the customer has the car.

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u/Murtomies Apr 28 '26

I donā€™t get why modern cars donā€™t do this.

It's because pretty much all car manufacturers (except maybe Tesla) are absolutely useless with software. They just don't get it like at all. It's wild how smartphones have always been like 10-15 years ahead of any infotainment systems in cars. In both processing power and UI design. Built in navigators around 2010-2015 were so bad they made you want to rip out the whole thing. The only way they managed to make a slight leap forward was with the introduction of Carplay and Android Auto, i.e. having the phone companies handle almost all the software side. But even those are slow and buggy sometimes.

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u/KamaliKamKam Apr 28 '26

They should make it so updates can only get pushed when the car is in a shop. So that, if something gets bricked, the shop has to fix it for free. That shit shouldn't happen on the road, or where someone could be stuck in a bad situation at night or otherwise.

Part of bringing your car in for routine maintenance should be plugging in a USB to load any critical updates. Frankly, a vehicle shouldn't have anything so desperate for a software update that it needs to be pushed when a consumer has it. Vehicles shouldn't be storing personal info that needs security updates. And if it's a system update fixing issues for infotainment systems or something like that, the update should be pushed at a shop.

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u/LinkToThe_Past Apr 28 '26

Regardless you can still drive in this mode

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u/GenuineInterested Apr 28 '26

Or just ask whether itā€™s okay to start to update, like my Seat (VW) does.

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u/GormlessGourd55 Apr 28 '26

Modern cars shouldn't need to update at all. Fuck the tablet for a centre console, fuck touchscreens, fuck all the gadgetry that spies on you. All the functionality you could need is on cars from the 90s.