Federal complaint record · Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2010

2010 Hyundai Santa Fe

Owners submitted 256 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 54th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 33% · group n = 110Engine · 14% · group n = 45Electrical · 9% · group n = 28Other · 7% · group n = 24Speed control · 6% · group n = 21
256
Complaint records on file
41,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 212 complaints reported mileage
33%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 110
54th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 38 model years

Powertrain · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain33%

Powertrain reports

Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2010

Reports in this group110
Share of classified reports33%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
357 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
256 matched incidents
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
181 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
Transmission behavior · 63 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 1 of 32010 Hyundai Santa Fe
Stalling or shutdown · 45 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32010 Hyundai Santa Fe
Brake performance · 17 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32010 Hyundai Santa Fe

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

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