2025 Hyundai Palisade
This year drew an ordinary 234 complaints for a Hyundai Palisade — the model's median is 378. What they were about is the unusual part: 34.2% of them mention stop, against 8.1% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Hyundai Palisade ran from 2020 to 2025, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 234 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 378 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 34.2% of this year's complaints, against 8.1% across the other years of this generation (4.2×).
- brakes — 22.2% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (7.4×).
- uneven — 22.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: uneven, surfaces, surface, shaking.
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
I had brought my car in because it feels like the antilock brakes kick in on uneven surfaces. I was told there is no issue. This happens again 2 days ago. I have had it happen where I almost hit the person in front of me, the car will not stop. Dry roads. It’s…
In multiple instances, the ABS is engaging on uneven surfaces when it should not. It occurs when pulling into my driveway and just happened this morning in the car drop off line. I was going no more than 5mph when the car in front of me stopped. I hit the brak…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V291000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V607000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V034000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Palisade 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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