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2018 Hyundai Elantra: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2018 Hyundai Elantra. NHTSA has 282 complaints on file for this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2018 Hyundai Elantra. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 282 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

282 complaints, 407 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.

  • 2018 Hyundai Elantra
  • All 2018 vehicles
2018 Hyundai Elantra: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2018 ElantraAll 2018 vehiclesElantra, all yearsMentions
Engine344162.1135.6140
Unknown or Other132.7100.968.154
Electrical System105.7120.790.143
Power Train59102.356.124
Fuel/Propulsion System46.747.416.919
Exterior Lighting39.315.236.116
Steering39.358.494.816
Service Brakes36.982.148.215
Structure36.930.441.615
Vehicle Speed Control31.932.933.113

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 23.

Complaints that report a crash
12
Complaints that report a fire
7
Injuries in the complaints
6
Deaths in the complaints
1
Date of the newest complaint
19 Sep 2026

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2018 Hyundai Elantra, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2022, with 50 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2018 Hyundai Elantra: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/elantra/2018/. 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
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Hyundai Elantra have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 56 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Elantra, model years 1992 to 2026. None of them names the 2018 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2018 Hyundai Elantra name most often?
Engine: 140 of 407 component mentions, or 344 per 1,000. For all 2018 vehicles the figure is 162.1 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2018 Hyundai Elantra open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.