2022 Hyundai Santa Fe
This year drew an ordinary 192 complaints for a Hyundai Santa Fe — the model's median is 235. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.9% of them mention injectors, against 3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Hyundai Santa Fe, which began in 2019 and ran to 2023. 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 | 192 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 235 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- injectors — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: injectors, fuel injectors, february, dept.
- train — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: train, power train, train however, distribution.
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
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V746000 (Power Train) however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The dealer and the manufact…
Three fuel injectors out of four have failed in a year’s time frame. Car shakes, stalls, hesitates, and is dangerous to drive. Waiting for fourth injector to fail.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V524000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V197000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V746000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V181000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V879000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Santa Fe 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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