2022 Hyundai Tucson
This year drew an ordinary 370 complaints for a Hyundai Tucson — the model's median is 175. What they were about is the unusual part: 34.3% of them mention fuel, against 1.8% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Hyundai Tucson was redesigned for 2022. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 370 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 175 |
| Involving a crash | 24 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 27.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 34.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the other years of this generation (18.7×).
- check engine — 30% of this year's complaints, against 7.6% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: check engine, engine light, light came, engine warning.
- injectors — 21.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (7.1×). Owners wrote it as: injectors, fuel injectors, injectors failed, highways.
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
Fuel injectors failed while driving on parkway. Car lost power(would not go over 25mph) without notice. Not fun driving at 60mph then abrutly go to 25mph on left lane cars behind me nearly hit my car and could have caused a major pileup.There was no warning pr…
Lost acceleration while driving on the freeway and car started shaking with Check Engine light on. Took the car to the dealer for diagnostic and was informed that #4 injector failed causing the engine to misfire. This was the 3rd fuel injector failing in 5 mon…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V938000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 23V038000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V893000 TRAILER HITCHES 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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