all vehicles · every Santa Fe year · method

Hyundai Santa Fe 2011

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

0.71 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 54 complaints filed in the first three years, of 181 ever. 95% lower bound 0.52.

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	1.00	71
2009	0.54	41
2010	1.20	94
2011	0.71	54
2012	1.42	103
2013	1.93	154
2014	0.73	72
2015	0.30	34
2016	0.26	32
2017	1.97	260
2018	0.55	69
2019	0.59	72
2020	0.47	54
2021	1.07	114
2022	1.35	156
2023	1.83	230

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

33% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 44,100 miles, from 149 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

5 investigations covering this model year, 2 of which list a recall campaign.

Non-crash Vehicle Fires

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:

10373998 · 10375329 · 10382013 · 10386657 · 10410037 · 10412636

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 automated checks only, not verified against an external source.