2024 Hyundai Kona
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Hyundai Kona — the model's median is 74. What they were about is the unusual part: 26.7% of them mention turned, against 7.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 74 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- turned — 26.7% of this year's complaints, against 7.2% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- restarted — 22.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: restarted, displayed, contact unable, accelerate after.
- like — 24.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.4% across the model's other years (2.9×).
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
While at a light, the auto stop/start kicked on but when it was time to start driving again and I pressed the gas pedal, the car would not move. There was a long beep and then the check battery icon and an alert came on my dash board stating “Auto Stop is Off.…
The car shuts off at random times during me driving . Its like the car locks up steering and shuts completely down . Have to pull over and give the car time . And it shuts back on in and drives with poor accelerate after each issuse. The car is now shaking and…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V650000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V901000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V308000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Kona 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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