Model years Hyundai Sonata Plug-In
2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In
Complaints about this year name sonata hybrid far more often than the model's other years — 31% of them, about 76× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 157 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 5 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 40 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- back — 24% of complaints, 61× usual
- over — 22% of complaints, 54× usual
- down — 18% of complaints, 45× usual
What owners wrote
MY CAR COMPLETELY LOST POWER WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY. THE DASH READ "HYBRID SYSTEM FAILURE". IT SHUT OFF WHILE I WAS DRIVING IN THE CARPOOL LANE. THERE WAS NO WARNING, JUST SHUT RIGHT OFF. I WAS ABLE TO COAST OVER TO THE SHOULDER TO SAFETY UNTIL AAA…
While driving the hybrid system warning light comes on and says to check hybrid system, vehicle goes into limp mode will not accelerate over 25 mph and codes need to be cleared before vehicle van be driven. This has caused me to almost have several accidents.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In 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.
Own a 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In? What happened to yours?
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