Recall Register

Hyundai Sonata GLS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Hyundai Sonata GLS, model year 1999. NHTSA has 46 complaints on file for this model line. The model line has 1 model year in the NHTSA files, and it has a page here.

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. 19990
Hyundai Sonata GLS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Hyundai Sonata GLS046100%

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

67 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 Sonata GLS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure537.336
Suspension179.112
Air Bags104.57
Engine and Engine Cooling74.65
Power Train44.83
Steering29.92
Wheels14.91
Tires14.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Hyundai Sonata GLS, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Hyundai Sonata GLS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 20 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Hyundai: all 44 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Hyundai Sonata GLS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/sonata-gls/. 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

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

Why does the Hyundai Sonata GLS have 1 model year here?
The NHTSA files name the Hyundai Sonata GLS for the model year 1999 only. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different model line.
Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Sonata GLS name?
Structure: 537.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 179.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 104.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Sonata GLS?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.