2023 Hyundai Palisade
This year drew an ordinary 388 complaints for a Hyundai Palisade — the model's median is 298. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.5% of them mention brake pedal, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Hyundai Palisade, which began in 2020 and ran to 2025. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 388 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 298 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brake pedal — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (4.9×). Owners wrote it as: brake pedal, slowing.
- visibility — 6.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation (5.2×). Owners wrote it as: visibility, sunlight.
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
Rear passenger windows cloudy. Defect with the tint inside the window glass restricting visibility especially in sunlight.
Rear door windows, not clear, gray, especially in sunlight and causes visibility and safety issues, Hyundai at this point is not planning on doing anything to resolve this issue. I picked up the vehicle on an overcast day and rain. Didn’t notice this issue or…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V180000 VISIBILITY/WIPER Fixed free of charge.
- 23V415000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 23V526000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V607000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V034000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Palisade 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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