Federal complaint record · Hyundai Elantra · model year 2019

2019 Hyundai Elantra

Owners submitted 244 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 67th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2017 to 2021 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 40% · group n = 130Lighting · 20% · group n = 65Electrical · 12% · group n = 38Other · 8% · group n = 25Driver assistance · 3% · group n = 11
244
Complaint records on file
50,200
Median mileage at the reported problem · 56 complaints reported mileage
40%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 130
67th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 35 model years

Engine · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine40%

Engine reports

Hyundai Elantra · model year 2019

Reports in this group130
Share of classified reports40%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2018
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
275 matched incidents
This car
2019
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
244 matched incidents
2020
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
240 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Stalling or shutdown · 52 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32019 Hyundai Elantra
Engine damage · 23 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 2 of 32019 Hyundai Elantra
Warning indicators · 16 reports

Reports describe warning lights before service

Cluster 3 of 32019 Hyundai Elantra

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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