Model years Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
2014 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
This year drew an ordinary 160 complaints for a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport — the model's median is 195. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.8% of them mention hood, against 4.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 160 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 195 |
| Involving a fire | 15 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- hood — 13.8% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: hood, insurance, considering, hood latch.
- engine engine — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: engine engine, cooling, engine cooling.
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
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the engine seized. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic, who informed the contact that the engine needed to be replaced. The mechanic linked the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 17V226000 (Engine and Engine C…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 70 MPH, THE ENGINE SEIZED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO RICART HYUNDAI IN COLUMBUS, OHIO WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT METAL SHAVINGS WERE DEPOSITED INTO THE ENGINE, WHICH CAUSED THE FAILURE. THE [VIN] WAS MADE AWARE OF TH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V934000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 17V358000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 17V226000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 21V303000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 20V520000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 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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