Hyundai Santa FE Sport: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Santa FE Sport, model years 2013 to 2018. NHTSA has 1,185 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 6 model years have a page on this register.
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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 4 | 321 | 163% | 403,150 |
| 2017 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 3 | 351 | 178% | 811,908 |
| 2016 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 1 | 69 | 35% | 437,400 |
| 2015 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 3 | 82 | 42% | 739,810 |
| 2014 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 5 | 163 | 83% | 1,462,540 |
| 2013 Hyundai Santa FE Sport | 6 | 199 | 101% | 3,112,018 |
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
1,588 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | 431.4 | 685 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 91.9 | 146 |
| Unknown or Other | 83.1 | 132 |
| Power Train | 57.9 | 92 |
| Electrical System | 55.4 | 88 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 51.6 | 82 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 36.5 | 58 |
| Service Brakes | 34 | 54 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 30.2 | 48 |
| Structure | 18.3 | 29 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Sonata65 campaigns
- Elantra56 campaigns
- Santa FE45 campaigns
- Tucson36 campaigns
- Palisade16 campaigns
- Accent25 campaigns
- Ioniq 515 campaigns
- Veloster10 campaigns
- Genesis10 campaigns
- Kona9 campaigns
- Sonata Hybrid13 campaigns
- Tiburon17 campaigns
- Azera11 campaigns
- Veracruz6 campaigns
- Tucson Hybrid4 campaigns
- Santa Cruz9 campaigns
- Excel9 campaigns
- Entourage6 campaigns
- XG3503 campaigns
- Santa FE Hybrid9 campaigns
- Genesis Coupe6 campaigns
- Elantra Touring4 campaigns
- Kona Electric5 campaigns
- Venue3 campaigns
- Elantra Hybrid6 campaigns
- Ioniq 66 campaigns
- Ioniq Hybrid4 campaigns
- Elantra GT2 campaigns
- Equus3 campaigns
- XG3004 campaigns
- Sonata Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
- Veloster N2 campaigns
- Santa FE Plug-In Hybrid4 campaigns
- XG 3500 campaigns
- Sonata GLS0 campaigns
- Elantra N5 campaigns
- Ioniq 93 campaigns
- Santa FE XL1 campaign
- Tucson Plug-In Hybrid4 campaigns
- Ioniq Electric3 campaigns
- Nexo5 campaigns
- Kona N2 campaigns
- Palisade Hybrid3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Hyundai Santa FE Sport: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/santa-fe-sport/. 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
- 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 Santa FE Sport model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2013 with 6, 2014 with 5, 2018 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Hyundai Santa FE Sport model year has the most complaints?
- The 2017 model year, with 351 of the 1,185 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Santa FE Sport name?
- Engine: 431.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 91.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 83.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Santa FE Sport?
- 5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.