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Hyundai Elantra 2019

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

0.31 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 59 complaints filed in the first three years, of 265 ever. 95% lower bound 0.23.

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 143 complaints

knocking	24	17%
piston	23	16%
campaign engine	20	14%
rod	17	12%
rings	12	9%
regular	11	8%

Exterior Lighting 66 complaints

high	44	65%
high beam	29	43%
beams	29	43%
high beams	28	42%

When it breaks

28% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 50,400 miles, from 61 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

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:

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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.