Recall Register

Hyundai Santa FE: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 45 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Santa FE, model years 2001 to 2026. NHTSA has 828 complaints on file for this model line. 23 of the 26 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.

  1. 20014
  2. 20024
  3. 20034
  4. 20043
  5. 20053
  6. 20061
  7. 20077
  8. 20084
  9. 20092
  10. 20102
  11. 20112
  12. 20121
  13. 20133
  14. 20143
  15. 20152
  16. 20163
  17. 20176
  18. 20182
  19. 20192
  20. 20201
  21. 20216
  22. 20225
  23. 20231
  24. 20247
  25. 20255
  26. 20264
Hyundai Santa FE: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Hyundai Santa FE400%336,386
2025 Hyundai Santa FE500%573,593
2024 Hyundai Santa FE700%688,544
2023 Hyundai Santa FE NHTSA page100%584,784
2022 Hyundai Santa FE500%882,818
2021 Hyundai Santa FE600%882,814
2020 Hyundai Santa FE NHTSA page100%584,784
2019 Hyundai Santa FE200%592,988
2018 Hyundai Santa FE200%398,418
2017 Hyundai Santa FE600%835,730
2016 Hyundai Santa FE300%828,948
2015 Hyundai Santa FE200%2,086,878
2014 Hyundai Santa FE300%2,086,906
2013 Hyundai Santa FE300%2,107,178
2012 Hyundai Santa FE NHTSA page100%128,948
2011 Hyundai Santa FE200%1,714,121
2010 Hyundai Santa FE23094%1,718,212
2009 Hyundai Santa FE22372%1,911,454
2008 Hyundai Santa FE466207%2,205,630
2007 Hyundai Santa FE7130408%3,214,513
2006 Hyundai Santa FE12682%271,773
2005 Hyundai Santa FE357179%283,907
2004 Hyundai Santa FE3111349%538,483
2003 Hyundai Santa FE4164515%621,838
2002 Hyundai Santa FE471223%630,080
2001 Hyundai Santa FE4150471%630,080

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

1,027 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 Santa FE: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags134.4138
Service Brakes, Hydraulic114.9118
Power Train106.1109
Vehicle Speed Control106.1109
Electrical System98.3101
Engine and Engine Cooling96.499
Suspension75.978
Visibility3637
Structure35.136
Steering33.134

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Hyundai Santa FE, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2024, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Hyundai Santa FE, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 188 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Hyundai: all 42 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Hyundai Santa FE: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/santa-fe/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
Hyundai Motor Company

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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2024 with 7, 2007 with 7, 2021 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Hyundai Santa FE model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 164 of the 828 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 name?
Air Bags: 134.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 114.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 106.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Santa FE?
15 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.