2024 Hyundai Elantra
This year drew an ordinary 57 complaints for a Hyundai Elantra — the model's median is 266. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.3% of them mention causing, against 4.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Hyundai Elantra, which began in 2021. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 57 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 266 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 34 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- causing — 19.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the other years of this generation (4.1×).
- went — 19.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×).
- attention — 14% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (4.5×). Owners wrote it as: attention, unsafe.
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
2024 Hyundai Elantra horn failed, and has to be replaced at under 20,000 miles. Safety of myself and occupants was put at risk when another oncoming vehicle was not paying attention and veered in my lane going 75 mph and my horn would not work to call their at…
While it may sound bizarre, I can definitively demonstrate that whenever I am present inside a car, the car become very unstable and bouncy and unsafe to operate. Not only does it not steer straight the car also becomes incapable of coasting smoothly and is co…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V308000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Elantra 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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