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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Sonata

What it says about you

Opinion

Better than it has any right to be for what it cost, and you are quietly aware you got away with something. Nobody notices it, which you have decided you prefer.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

23 model years on record, 14,427 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 (steering column), 2006 (airbag light). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • goes 2014, 2021 peak 8.5% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 2 complaints
  3. 2025 0 recalls 15 complaints
  4. 2024 1 recall 53 complaints
  5. 2023 2 recalls 100 complaints
  6. 2022 3 recalls 91 complaints
  7. 2021 4 recalls 129 complaints
  8. 2020 4 recalls 186 complaints
  9. 2019 0 recalls 157 complaints
  10. 2018 1 recall 366 complaints
  11. 2017 3 recalls 761 complaints
  12. 2016 6 recalls 718 complaints
  13. 2015 9 recalls 1,137 complaints
  14. 2014 7 recalls 743 complaints
  15. 2013 9 recalls 1,902 complaints
  16. 2012 8 recalls 1,556 complaints
  17. 2011 steering column 3,373 complaints
  18. 2010 2 recalls 345 complaints
  19. 2009 2 recalls 460 complaints
  20. 2008 5 recalls 425 complaints
  21. 2007 7 recalls 696 complaints
  22. 2006 airbag light 1,047 complaints
  23. 2005 1 recall 165 complaints

What does a Hyundai Sonata say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.