2024 Hyundai Sonata
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Hyundai Sonata — the model's median is 425. What they were about is the unusual part: 17% of them mention many, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Hyundai Sonata, which began in 2020. 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 | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 425 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- many — 17% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (6.4×).
- turned — 20.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the other years of this generation (3.2×).
- assistance — 15.1% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: assistance, drive warning, three times, cause failure.
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
In morning dew/foggy winshield, the systems will disable easily. You get pop ups such as: Inattentive Driving Disabled, Camera Obscured. And forward collision warning disabled, camera obscured. I’ve had many vehicles in the past and the safety systems never di…
Sudden loss of acceleration. This occurred while making a left turn across traffic from a stop. At approximately 7mph the car would not accelerate any further. I was luckily able to coast the vehicle into a center turn lane. Upon coming to a stop I was unable…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V583000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Sonata 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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