You throw the cost of the product around like it as easy as 123 or ABC. It isn’t as most companies will test the product on the car and ensure it works, plus the extra labor need to add it, technology to monitor it etc…it isn’t $300, it’s much more to Hyundai because their 100k warranty will cover that part.
They can buy a proven "off the shelf" name brand track tested LSD and at the quantity they would order it would be about $300, when it is $700 retail. Hyundai's driveline engineers could CAD a mechanical LSD off in 1 week. They have already tested the eLSD for years. They have all the specs for metallurgy, fitment, unit thickness and ext.... but the mechanical clutch system. Then get off their ars and put it in a highly tuned car and thrash the crap out of it. If it makes it, then TUNE it, like they did not do on the 7 speed DCT. They were working on the i20 N at the time so they could easily cross reference tuning to advance both mechanical LSDs on the bigger sister mechanical LSD.
They had to be TOO MANY apologists at Hyundai with the 7 speed DCT testing. All they needed is "someone to care" and spend another 2 weeks "tuning" for high rpm scenarios. The engineers knew the tuning was crap, but again stupid choices not spending another couple of weeks tuning the 7 speed DCT. We have "tuners" now fixing some of the issues that never should of been there, and they are doing it and they are no where near DCT engineers. There are people with 7 speed DCTs that are running close in quality of tuning to the 8 speed. While we would all love the wet clutch, a dry clutch if tuned can work almost as good if you don't go past 300hp. At this level, Hyundai racing has a spec for a 1.5 inch hole to be drilled in the bell housing to allow an air flow system to cross ventalate through the hole and out the inspection port, or vise versa. It has been used to reduce heat in the bell housing/clutch with great results I heard.
So many Hyundai apologist for Hyundai's cheapskate moves from New Hyundai fan boys here. You throw stuff around like everything is SO HARD and is cost prohibitive. There is a TON of profit left in these cars, a ton.
So the first prototype "Hyundai One Wheel Wonder" Sonata N-Line/Kia G5 GT high performance car they made, the engineers said to themselves "crap this really is a POS "Hyundai One Wheel Wonder " tire burner. Let's put in a mechanical LSD, that is a very cheap item to improve this epic failure and an easy fix for a high hp high torque FWD One Wheel Wonder" car. At that time they had all the time in the world to do testing. But dumb ars Hyundai nixed the only sane/rational move to make the car take that kind of HP/TQ. This is 2022, NOT 1980. You seem to want to except a 1980 designed car scheme I see. I don't, I expect more in 2022. EVER reviewer called this stupid choice of no mechanical LSD out on a high HP/TQ FWD car, because it is just plain old stupid.
I guess you have not been around Hyundai Kia for long, as the "Korean way" is put your head in the sand", and move forward with your blinders on and ear plugs in. 12 years of multi - engine series catastrophic failures year after year, at a self disclosed cost of 5 BILLION dollars. 12 years. Almost all would not of happened, with a better metallurgy choice and on one series of motors piston squirters. All they had to do is use Hypereutectic pistons in the non turbo cars and better quality engine bearings and 5/8ths of the engine problems would be have fixed, saving BILLIONS of dollars. Hyundai turbo engines don't fail to any degree like the NA motors do, because the turbo engines get robust metallurgy chosen parts. My hypothesis is the upper top top level executives have engine rebuilding companies on the side to "cash in" on 12 years of bad choices, every year. Toyota will change engine parts 1-2 times in a mid model year to fix a problem. Hyundai has yet to fix their choice after 12 years.
We have to see if the new motors that just came out have the correct design and metallurgy choice to stay together. The great thing is, "just by chance" the 1.6T is one of their top level robust engines, if you don't have a dropped piston skirt in the first 5,000 miles your 1.6T should last to 100,000+ with normal care and hard thrashing. The 1.6T has not made it into the hall of engine shame like the other series of engines. Like my 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT 1.8 that tanked at 14,000 miles. On a steady diet of Mobil 1 and 3,000 mile oil changes. There were 55 cars at my dealer waiting for a motor when mine was in, and 300 cars waiting for new motors at certified Hyundai mechanics shop that was on the Hyundai forums around that time of mine. All the sister "other brand " dealerships of his owner's where replacing the cooked motors because everyday a new batch of fried multi- series motors were coming right in the door by flat bed or driven in making horrible noises. There is 12 years of this same smit from Hyundai.
