Vehicle
Hyundai H-1
The one-tonne van and minibus, sold as Starex, i800, iLoad and iMax depending on market — all the same vehicle, which is worth knowing because service information is scattered across those names. Nearly all working examples are diesel, and the 2.5 CRDi is the engine to understand: the earlier D4CB with a variable-geometry turbocharger whose vane mechanism sticks with soot and sets underboost or overboost codes long before it makes a noise, and injectors whose copper washers leak combustion gases into the head and produce a rough cold idle. The particulate filter fitted on later markets regenerates poorly on the short urban runs these vans usually do, so a soot-load code is often a duty-cycle problem rather than a component one.
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Generations
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First generation 1997–2007
The original Starex; 2.5 diesel with mechanical and early common-rail injection depending on market.
- Body styles
- Van · Minibus
- Platform
- Hyundai H-1
- Engines
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- 2.4 petrol — petrol
- 2.5 diesel — D4BH · diesel
- 2.5 CRDi — D4CB · diesel
- 3.0 V6 — petrol
- 2.5 — D4BF · diesel
- 2.6 — D4BB · diesel
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 4-speed automatic · 6-speed manual
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
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Second generation (TQ) 2007–present
The Grand Starex and i800; the D4CB's variable-geometry turbo sticking with soot is the recurring boost fault.
- Body styles
- Van · Minibus
- Platform
- Hyundai TQ
- Engines
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- 2.4 petrol — petrol · Theta
- 2.5 CRDi — D4CB · diesel · 85–125 kW (114–168 hp)
- 2.2 CRDi — D4HB · diesel
- 2.5 — D4BH · diesel · 85–125 kW (114–168 hp)
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 6-speed manual · 4-speed automatic · 5-speed automatic · 4/5-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive
Service information
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