Federal complaint record · Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2015

2015 Hyundai Santa Fe

Owners submitted 253 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 26th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2013 to 2017 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 48% · group n = 160Brakes · 9% · group n = 30Other · 7% · group n = 22Powertrain · 7% · group n = 22Electrical · 6% · group n = 20
253
Complaint records on file
66,181
Median mileage at the reported problem · 87 complaints reported mileage
48%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 160
26th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 5 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine48%

Engine reports

Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2015

Reports in this group160
Share of classified reports48%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2014
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
492 matched incidents
This car
2015
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
253 matched incidents
2016
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
235 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
Engine damage · 37 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 1 of 32015 Hyundai Santa Fe
Fire or smoke · 37 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 2 of 32015 Hyundai Santa Fe
Stalling or shutdown · 34 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32015 Hyundai Santa Fe

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

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