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Hyundai Elantra 2018

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.39 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 78 complaints filed in the first three years, of 332 ever. 95% lower bound 0.30.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.98	93
2009	0.29	29
2010	0.47	55
2011	0.37	59
2012	0.60	116
2013	1.53	345
2014	0.28	67
2015	0.17	39
2016	0.27	61
2017	0.76	154
2018	0.39	78
2019	0.31	59
2020	0.71	99
2021	0.88	101
2022	0.89	107
2023	1.11	140

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Engine 171 complaints

oil	79	46%
loud	19	11%
knocking	18	11%
ago	18	11%
brought	15	9%
stalling	15	9%

Unknown Or Other 61 complaints

making

17%

When it breaks

56% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 19,000 miles, from 107 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11060983 · 11064085 · 11078426 · 11090893 · 11091992 · 11092018

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.