2022 Hyundai Kona
This year drew an ordinary 96 complaints for a Hyundai Kona — the model's median is 63. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.7% of them mention fine, against 6.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 96 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 63 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 31 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fine — 17.7% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: fine, used, leave, acting.
- feature — 11.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: feature, idle, activated, now since.
- waiting — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the model's other years (5.9×). Owners wrote it as: waiting, without impact.
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
During collision, airbags did not deploy. In attempt to avoid collision, automatic breaks failed and did not stop the vehicle, cruise control continued to attempt to drive the vehicle despite collision warning and did not stop- coupled with my manual breaking,…
The horn stopped working less than a year after I bought the car brand new. The dealer finally agreed to repair/replace it in Feb 2024. Less than a year later it is not working again. A horn is important for alerting other drivers to impending collisions. It a…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Kona 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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