2011 Hyundai Elantra
This year drew 460 complaints against a median of 260 across the Hyundai Elantra's other years, 1.8× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 5 recalls, listed below.
First year of a new generation. The Hyundai Elantra was redesigned for 2011. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 460 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 260 |
| Involving a crash | 21 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 32 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 15V629000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 15V871000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
- 13V115000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V393000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V651000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Elantra was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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