Model years Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
This year drew an ordinary 414 complaints for a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport — the model's median is 160. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.8% of them mention engines, against 2.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 414 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 160 |
| Involving a crash | 12 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- engines — 6.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: engines, law.
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 vehicle has approximately 152,000 miles, and I am currently experiencing a major engine failure. Oil consumption and knocking on engine Hyundai has had lawsuits in the past with unsafe unreliable engines.
Car stuttered and would not rev past 2k rpm. Blinking check engine light appeared Code was for known connecting rod failure for all theta engines for our 2018 sante fe. Hyundai is trying to get out of covering the cost of repair or replacement even though this…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V577000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 22V056000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 17V801000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V810000 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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