2011 Hyundai Tucson
This year drew an ordinary 124 complaints for a Hyundai Tucson — the model's median is 185. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.5% of them mention march, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Hyundai Tucson, which began in 2010 and ran to 2015. 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 | 124 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 185 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- march — 6.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (4.9×). Owners wrote it as: march, rear subframe.
- abs — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: abs, involved, problem car.
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 ON A FLAT ROAD SURFACE THE REAR SUBFRAME BROKE ON REAR PASSENGER SIDE AND CAR WAS DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. THE CAR WAS RECALLED FOR CORROSION AND TAKEN TO THE DEALER MARCH 2017 FOR THIS ISSUE I FEEL THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED AT THAT TIME SO THIS W…
My wife was driving this vehicle 2 weeks ago and smoke came out of the driverside hood. She pulled into a parking space then the smoke came out the other side. Vehicle was towed as it would restart to the dealership. They have not done anything to look at the…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V063000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V057000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V245000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V113000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V651000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Tucson 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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