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Hyundai Santa Fe 2023

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.83 per 1,000

1.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 230 complaints filed in the first three years, of 289 ever. 95% lower bound 1.59.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.00	71
2009	0.54	41
2010	1.20	94
2011	0.71	54
2012	1.42	103
2013	1.93	154
2014	0.73	72
2015	0.30	34
2016	0.26	32
2017	1.97	260
2018	0.55	69
2019	0.59	72
2020	0.47	54
2021	1.07	114
2022	1.35	156
2023	1.83	230

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Unknown Or Other 75 complaints

horn	20	27%
sunroof	19	26%
exploded	14	19%
glass	14	19%
sunroof exploded	10	14%

Electrical System 55 complaints

horn

35%

Forward Collision Avoidance 50 complaints

either

19%

When it breaks

75% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 9,500 miles, from 24 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11482757 · 11497125 · 11498669 · 11507996 · 11508320 · 11509161

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.