For every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2023 Seltos as about the typical Seltos year. Among the 2 Seltos years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2023 (0.66 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2021 (2.62).
Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.
1.0 times this nameplate’s own median
Counted from 35 complaints filed in the first three years, of 47 ever. 95% lower bound 0.44.
The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters. The bar is how many complaints each rate rests on.
| Model year | Per 1,000 | Complaints | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2.62 | 128 | |
| 2022 | 0.47 | 23 | |
| 2023 | 0.66 | 35 |
No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.
Too few complaints record mileage for this model year to show a pattern. NHTSA largely stopped capturing mileage after 2021.
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For every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2023 Seltos as about the typical Seltos year. Among the 2 Seltos years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2023 (0.66 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2021 (2.62). The typical year is the median across its model years.
The parts owners named most often in complaints filed to date: Engine (18), Unknown Or Other (17), Electrical System (16).
Complaint records cannot settle that on their own. They count safety problems owners chose to report to the federal government, not every repair. What they do show is how this year compares with the other Seltos years: for every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2023 Seltos as about the typical Seltos year.
Among years with enough complaints to compare, the 2023, at 0.66 per 1,000 sold. Every Seltos year, ranked.
No guide we read covers the Seltos.
Example records behind this page, each on NHTSA’s own site: