Cerraduras y herrajes para Hyundai Santa Fe

Locks and Hardware for Hyundai Santa Fe

Though its easy to overlook the locks on your Hyundai Santa Fe SUV, that doesnt make them any less important to the safety of your vehicle. They keep the people you care about safe while youre driving and the things you care about safe when youre parked. Thats why properly maintaining your locks and hardware for your Hyundai Santa Fe auto is such an essential part of a good maintenance routine on your Santa Fe.

While its easy to visualize your Santa Fes locks as being just a lock, your cars locks are quite complex. If you consider the locks as a system, the components that make up that system include the door handle, the lock cylinder, the lock actuator, the actuator arms, and the lock button on the interior of your Hyundai Santa Fe. While complex, the good news is that, as separate components, each of these items can be replaced separately, saving you the hassle of having to change the entire system.

Therefore, options for lock replacement and hardware on your Hyundai Santa Fe include Original Equipment Manufacturer and aftermarket models of all the components listed above. Selecting the correct components is especially important here as you must ensure you select components that will fit in the specific door you are working on. For example, the drivers door. This is because the components for each door are manufactured differently from the components for every other door to ensure the right fit. Therefore, parts for different doors are not interchangeable.

Though your Hyundai Santa Fes lock cylinder itself may become worn out over time, a more likely repair would be to replace the door lock actuator. Although it does involve removing your interior door panel, replacing your Hyundai Santa Fes door lock actuator is a simple process that will save you a lot of time as you dont have to worry about your locks not operating when youre running late in the morning.

• Detach the Hyundais interior door panel by removing the screws holding it in place, leaning it out, and disconnecting the electrical harnesses that are attached to it.
• Remove the water barrier, then remove the actuator arms from the actuator arm clips on the latch. Also, remove the actuator arms that extend to the interior door handle. Disconnect the actuators wiring harness, and then unscrew the actuator body from the vehicles door and remove the actuator through the hole in the door.
• Install the new actuator by twisting it to fit inside the door panel, and then reinstall the screws holding it to the door panel.
• Reconnect the actuator arms to the SUVs interior door handle and exterior handle latch using the actuator arm clips. Then, reconnect the electrical harness, reinstall the water barrier and the interior door panel, then check for proper operation.