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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Tucson

What it says about you

Opinion

Compared directly against three others on a spreadsheet, where it won on price. That is the entire story and it is a perfectly good one.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 6,205 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2017 (transmission), 2016 (door). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • injectors 2022, 2023 peak 21.9% of that year's complaints
  • accelerating 2017, 2018 peak 10.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 5 recalls 55 complaints
  2. 2025 6 recalls 269 complaints
  3. 2024 4 recalls 93 complaints
  4. 2023 2 recalls 140 complaints
  5. 2022 3 recalls 370 complaints
  6. 2021 1 recall 76 complaints
  7. 2020 1 recall 175 complaints
  8. 2019 1 recall 371 complaints
  9. 2018 1 recall 388 complaints
  10. 2017 transmission 1,079 complaints
  11. 2016 door 1,615 complaints
  12. 2015 1 recall 226 complaints
  13. 2014 2 recalls 201 complaints
  14. 2013 3 recalls 266 complaints
  15. 2012 3 recalls 254 complaints
  16. 2011 5 recalls 124 complaints
  17. 2010 4 recalls 57 complaints
  18. 2009 1 recall 18 complaints
  19. 2008 1 recall 43 complaints
  20. 2007 5 recalls 65 complaints
  21. 2006 5 recalls 135 complaints
  22. 2005 8 recalls 185 complaints

What does a Hyundai Tucson say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.