2024 Hyundai Santa Fe
This year drew an ordinary 170 complaints for a Hyundai Santa Fe — the model's median is 235. What they were about is the unusual part: 20% of them mention transmission, against 3% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Hyundai Santa Fe was redesigned for 2024. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 170 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 235 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 20% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (6.8×).
- camera — 20% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: camera, warnings, constantly, displays.
- message — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the model's other years (6.2×). Owners wrote it as: message, displayed.
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 driving my 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe on the interstate, the “Keep your eyes on the road” alert repeatedly activated even though the driver was attentive and looking forward. After multiple warnings, the system escalated to a message that the vehicle was abou…
The blind spot cameras work intermittently. When the cameras do not work a green video screen is displayed on the driver's video dash screen.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V246000 BACK OVER PREVENTION
- 24V529000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V561000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V843000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V659000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V808000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V218000 SEAT BELTS 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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