2017 Hyundai Veloster
This year drew an ordinary 49 complaints for a Hyundai Veloster — the model's median is 136. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.3% of them mention accident, against 3.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 49 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 136 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- accident — 16.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (4.4×).
- more — 16.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- center — 16.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: center, fast, let, service center.
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
The Airbag warning light came on soon after I bought the car and I took it to the dealership. They said it was sensor under passenger seat and repaired. A week later, did it again. Said it was probably another bad sensor under seat. It intermittently goes off…
ON MY WAY HOME FROM WORK MY CAR STALLED OUT ON THE HIGHWAY. LUCKILY TRAFFIC WASN'T HEAVY AND I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT OVER TO THE SHOULDER ACCIDENT FREE. MY CAR WOULDN'T CUT BACK ON SO I GOT IT TOWED TO VANDERGRIFF HYUNDAI IN ARLINGTON TX. THEY QUOTED ME $12,322.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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