2006 Hyundai Sonata info

A friend of mine is going to look at an 06 Sonata with 168K on it so I thought i would ask if there is anything specific to that car I should tell him to look for.

Here is the car in question:

2005 Sonata

Thanks

I bought one new when I was doing a ton of traveling - from DC to western Mass. on just about a weekly basis. It was a very good, completely inoffensive, appliance. Didn't do anything wrong, at the expense of being extremely bland. Ours never had to go back to the dealer over the course of ~75K miles in four years except for oil changes. I don't know how well they aged beyond the time we had ours, though.

My friends girlfriend/wife/whatever has had an 06 since new. I'm pretty sure all it's needed is oil changes and tires over the 100k or so she's put on. It's a good kid hauling appliance.

My daughter's Sonata had a bunch of electrical stuff that I could never find (much less fix). Her mom & maternal grandma found it on a Carmax lot. A lot of stuff like post-'90s VWs..they tried to do "luxury features" cheaply. Power windows/locks/cupholders/whatever else failed, and couldn't be fixed, even if you had a shop manual and a multimeter..unless you were a professional mechanic, and could charge for the 20hrs it took to go through each circuit.

That being said, I hated the way it smelled the first time I ever sat in it. We live in the Southeast, I think it was a "Katrina car". Thing finally died in an intersection with the whole dash glowing like a Christmas Tree. Might not have been the poor thing's fault.

Pretty much oil changes and brakes. That body style is pretty much dead nuts reliable. 160k is just broken in.

friedgreen, I'd guess that car was a water car. Electronics on the post 2000 cars are pretty reliable. the earlier cars? Different story.

EDIT: One of my former employers had one with 300k on the showroom floor. Everything worked, ran great.

Thanks everyone.