Hyundai, Kia, Genesis emergency start pages now fully untangled

Emergency start

Several days ago, we set out to do a simple emergency start review for Genesis models. It became almost immediately clear that the page involved needed a serious overhaul.

When we set it up many years ago, Hyundai and Kia shared a handful of emergency or back-up start options, so we created a single page and what in retrospect was a mistake by labelling the different options “Method 1, Method 2” etc.

When Genesis became a separate company, we simply added the brand to the page, as it used the simplest means of emergency starting: pushing the start / stop button with the key fob (right).

Then Genesis went backwards with the G80 in 2021, where they employed a spot just in front of the center console storage area, which we added to the page (left).

Then we made a very different mistake.

With the advent of digital keys, we spotted a new emergency start method where a registered key card or cell phone could be used by placing either on the cell phone charge pad.

We then assumed that the “push the start / stop button with the key fob” method had been abandoned.

It had not.

And once we began a re-write, it became clear that it would serve Hyundai, Kia and Genesis drivers far better if each had a separate page.

The re-writes are done, dozens of internal links have been changed and the pages look far, far better — they are presented by year and model rather than by method. See for yourself…

• The Hyundai emergency start page is here.
• The Kia emergency start page is here.
• And the Genesis emergency start page is here.

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