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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Veloster

What it says about you

Opinion

Three doors, asymmetrically, which is either a brilliant idea or a party trick. You have decided it is brilliant.

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

9 model years on record, 1,283 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2016 (rod), 2013 (electrical), 2012 (sunroof). 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.

  • coupler 2012, 2013 peak 9.8% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2021 1 recall 11 complaints
  2. 2020 1 recall 23 complaints
  3. 2019 2 recalls 42 complaints
  4. 2017 0 recalls 49 complaints
  5. 2016 rod 221 complaints
  6. 2015 2 recalls 136 complaints
  7. 2014 2 recalls 86 complaints
  8. 2013 electrical 420 complaints
  9. 2012 sunroof 295 complaints

What does a Hyundai Veloster 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.