Hyundai And Kia Gdi Engines

1) Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP are counsel in a certified class action alleging that the engines in certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles contains dangerous defects.

2) The parties have reached a proposed nationwide Settlement in this class action. The lawsuit alleges that the Settlement Class Vehicles (below) were manufactured, marketed, sold, and leased with an engine defect that can result in sudden engine seizure, engine failure, and/or engine fire. The Defendants deny those allegations.

Settlement Class Vehicles

3) The Short Form Pre-Approval Notice (Hyundai) is available here in English and French. The Short Form Pre-Approval Notice (Kia) is available here in English and French.

4) The Long Form Pre-Approval Notice (Hyundai) is available here in English and French. The Long Form Pre-Approval Notice (Kia) is available here in English and French.

5) The Settlement Agreement is available here in English and French.

6) The Ontario Court's Order certifying the case for settlement purposes and approving the notices is available here.

7) For more information on the settlement, including instructions on how to participate in the proposed settlement or how to Opt-Out, please view the English settlement websites here Hyundai: https://www.hyundaicanada-e2settlement.ca/; and Kia: https://www.kiacanada-e2settlement.ca/; and the French settlement websites here Hyundai: https://fr.hyundaicanada-e2settlement.ca/; and Kia: https://fr.kiacanada-e2settlement.ca/. For greater certainty, if you are a Settlement Class Member and wish to make a claim, you are not required to do anything until after the Settlement is approved. The claims process has not yet begun. If the Settlement is approved, Settlement Class Members will have 90 days to make a Claim by submitting a Claim Form, from the Effective Date (the date the Court order approving the Settlement has been issued and entered, if there are no appeals). Please continue to monitor this website and the above settlement website for updates.

8) If you have questions about the proposed settlement, please contact the Administrator at:

Hyundai/Kia Engines II Class Action Settlement Administrator
c/o Verita Global, LLC
PO Box 3355
London, ON  N6A 4K3
Toll-Free Telephone: 1-888-808-2457 (for Hyundai vehicles) or 1-888-808-2443 (for Kia vehicles)
Email: [email protected] (for Hyundai vehicles) or [email protected] (for Kia vehicles)

9) You may also contact Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP at 1.800.229.5323.

10) If you would like to learn more about how a class action works, please click here.

11) On March 9, 2021, the Ontario and Quebec Courts approved a settlement that applied to all residents of Canada who were current or former owners and/or lessees of a 2011-2019 Hyundai Sonata; 2013-2019 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport; 2014-2015; 2019 Hyundai Tucson; 2011-2019 Kia Optima; 2012-2019 Kia Sorento; and/or, a 2011-2019 Kia Sportage equipped with a Theta II 2.0-litre or 2.4-litre gasoline direct injection engine. The deadline for submitting a claim form was July 19, 2021.