Recall Register

Hyundai Elantra: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 56 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Elantra, model years 1992 to 2026. NHTSA has 1,873 complaints on file for this model line. 29 of the 33 model years have a page on this register.

Select a model yearNHTSA VIN lookup

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19920
  2. 19930
  3. 19942
  4. 19951
  5. 19963
  6. 19973
  7. 19980
  8. 19992
  9. 20001
  10. 20016
  11. 20026
  12. 20035
  13. 20045
  14. 20054
  15. 20061
  16. 20076
  17. 20087
  18. 20094
  19. 20103
  20. 20115
  21. 20124
  22. 20134
  23. 20142
  24. 20153
  25. 20162
  26. 20174
  27. 20191
  28. 20203
  29. 20215
  30. 20225
  31. 20232
  32. 20241
  33. 20261
Hyundai Elantra: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Hyundai Elantra NHTSA page100%2,931
2024 Hyundai Elantra NHTSA page100%13,511
2023 Hyundai Elantra200%52,356
2022 Hyundai Elantra500%462,978
2021 Hyundai Elantra500%465,033
2020 Hyundai Elantra300%159,285
2019 Hyundai Elantra NHTSA page100%158,493
2017 Hyundai Elantra400%34,045
2016 Hyundai Elantra200%190,081
2015 Hyundai Elantra300%1,839,559
2014 Hyundai Elantra200%2,039,945
2013 Hyundai Elantra400%2,290,695
2012 Hyundai Elantra400%2,262,854
2011 Hyundai Elantra500%2,291,011
2010 Hyundai Elantra3712%2,393,215
2009 Hyundai Elantra41323%2,581,912
2008 Hyundai Elantra790159%2,743,042
2007 Hyundai Elantra64986%3,008,571
2006 Hyundai Elantra14376%3,011
2005 Hyundai Elantra465115%236,553
2004 Hyundai Elantra5134236%278,452
2003 Hyundai Elantra5162285%740,076
2002 Hyundai Elantra6255449%890,617
2001 Hyundai Elantra6254448%705,071
2000 Hyundai Elantra1182321%165,977
1999 Hyundai Elantra2114201%177,507
1998 Hyundai Elantra05597%
1997 Hyundai Elantra3109192%166,096
1996 Hyundai Elantra3100176%166,096
1995 Hyundai Elantra1112197%14,651
1994 Hyundai Elantra276134%15,251
1993 Hyundai Elantra NHTSA page02442%
1992 Hyundai Elantra02951%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

2,542 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Hyundai Elantra: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags219.1557
Engine and Engine Cooling105.8269
Power Train93.2237
Suspension81.4207
Electrical System77.9198
Service Brakes, Hydraulic66.5169
Fuel System, Gasoline48122
Visibility48122
Structure44.5113
Seat Belts34.688

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Hyundai Elantra, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Hyundai Elantra, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 214 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Hyundai: all 42 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Hyundai Elantra: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/elantra/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Hyundai Elantra model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 7, 2007 with 6, 2002 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Hyundai Elantra model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 255 of the 1,873 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Elantra name?
Air Bags: 219.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 105.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 93.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Elantra?
17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.