2021 Hyundai Tucson
This year drew an ordinary 76 complaints for a Hyundai Tucson — the model's median is 185. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.2% of them mention collision, against 2.6% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Hyundai Tucson ran from 2016 to 2021, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 76 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 185 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- collision — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: collision, avoidance, quite.
- shoulder — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: shoulder, attention.
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
Forward collision warning is set at "early", but I only get 1 out of dozen incidents where I feel the warning should be triggered. Often I had to hit the brake hard enough to cause chest pains for me & my passenger. So, the injury below is a minor one for now,…
upon starting the vehicle on several occasions, the message "Check the Forward Collison System" was displayed, and a collision warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, where it was diagnosed that the forward-looking camera had experienced…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V543000 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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