Federal complaint record · Hyundai Sonata · model year 2013

2013 Hyundai Sonata

Owners submitted 1,898 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 91th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 29% · group n = 769Steering · 13% · group n = 341Electrical · 10% · group n = 260Fuel system · 8% · group n = 209Lighting · 8% · group n = 201
1,898
Complaint records on file
78,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 1,099 complaints reported mileage
29%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 769
91th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Engine · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine29%

Engine reports

Hyundai Sonata · model year 2013

Reports in this group769
Share of classified reports29%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,552 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,898 matched incidents
2014
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
742 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
Steering effort · 288 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32013 Hyundai Sonata
Fire or smoke · 267 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 2 of 32013 Hyundai Sonata
Stalling or shutdown · 215 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32013 Hyundai Sonata

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

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