2014 Hyundai Veloster
This year drew an ordinary 86 complaints for a Hyundai Veloster — the model's median is 136. What they were about is the unusual part: 7% of them mention night, against 1.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 86 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 136 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- night — 7% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the model's other years (5.5×).
- within — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: within, column, steering column, knob melted.
- less — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: less, less than, than 000.
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 AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THERE WAS AN ABNORMAL CLUNKING SOUND COMING FROM THE STEERING WHEEL. THERE WAS NO WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE SHE WAS INFORMED THAT THERE WAS A FRACTURED COUPLING WITHIN THE…
BACK UP CAMERA IS FLICKERING WHEN CAR IS PUT IN REVERSE, CAMERA GOES BLACK AT TIMES.THIS CAR HAS LESS THAN 40,000 MILES ON IT. THE CAMERA SHOULDN'T BE GOING BAD.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V132000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 23V651000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Veloster 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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