2013 Hyundai Genesis
This year drew an ordinary 195 complaints for a Hyundai Genesis — the model's median is 144. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.2% of them mention pull, against 2.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 195 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 144 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pull — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: pull, pull over, don know, over side.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
MY WIFE CAME HOME AN TOLD ME THAT THE CAR HAD [VIN] ON IT'S OWN. I TOOK IT FOR A DRIVE AFTER SHE HAD SHUT IT OFF, AND FOUND NO PROBLEMS. THIS HAPPENED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, AND SHE TOOK IT TO THE LOCAL DEALER, AND THEY COULD NOT FIND A PROBLEM. THIS PASS WEEKEND…
CAR STALLED IMMEDIATELY AFTER STARTING SEVERAL TIMES IN MY GARAGE. LET IT OVERNIGHT, AND STARTED IT AND PULL OUT IN THE DRIVEWAY WHERE LET THE ENGINE RUNNING WHILE IN PARK. WITHOUT WARNING LIGHTS THE ENGINE STALLED AFTER ABOUT 5 MINUTES. RE-STARTED THE CAR AND…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Genesis 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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