2013 Hyundai Veloster
Complaints about this year name electrical far more often than the model's other years — 10% of them, about 7× the usual rate of 1.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 420 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 86 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 33 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- coupler — 6.2% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (8.4×). Owners wrote it as: coupler, elantra, sonata.
- knob — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (4.7×). Owners wrote it as: knob, climate.
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.
Also unusual this year
- fire — 14% of complaints, 3× usual
- turbo — 9% of complaints, 4× usual
- people — 6% of complaints, 6× usual
What owners wrote
THE AC/HEATER BLOWER SWITCH WAS REPLACED 2 YEARS AGO AND AS OF TODAY I REMOVED THE SWITCH FOR NOT WORKING AGAIN AND FOUND THE SWITCH AND BOX HAD MELTED AND CAUGHT FIRE. THIS IS A MAJOR FIRE HAZARD THAT HAS OCCURRED TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE.
LAG UPON ACCELERATION. MULTIPLE CYLINDER MISFIRES. ALL REPLACED AND CONTINUE TO MISFIRE. TO MUCH OIL BEING EXPELLED THROUGH EXHAUST, REGULAR OIL CHANGE RECORDS AND DRIVE EFFICIENCY. POTENTIALLY RUINING TURBO AS WELL AS MOTOR. DEPLETING MPG.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V204000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 23V132000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 23V651000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Veloster 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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