Model years Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport — the model's median is 195. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.6% of them mention engine failed, against 2.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 195 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 10 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- engine failed — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- odor — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: odor, stated engine.
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
TOOK CAR IN 1 MONTH AGO FOR SERVICE CAMPAIGN (SOFTWARE UPDATE) 2016 SANTA FE SPORT 83,000 MILES. WHILE DRIVING ON FREEWAY YESTERDAY ENGINE LIGHT STARTED FLASHING AND CAR WENT IN TO 'SAFE MODE' WAS ABLE TO GO ABOUT 1/2 MILE BEFORE IT COMPLETELY STOPPED.. HAD IT…
while driving uphill, the vehicle failed to accelerate above 10 MPH. There was a burning odor coming from the vehicle with the check engine warning light illuminated. The contact stated that the engine had previously been replaced, but the failure persisted. T…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V358000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES 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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