Recall Register

Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, model years 2016 to 2019. NHTSA has 63 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 4 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. 20162
  2. 20172
  3. 20181
  4. 20190
Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid NHTSA page0532%
2018 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid NHTSA page100%2,840
2017 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid232203%472,217
2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid226165%472,217

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

103 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 Plug-In Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine349.536
Electrical System242.725
Unknown or Other126.213
Fuel/Propulsion System106.811
Power Train87.49
Hybrid Propulsion System29.13
Vehicle Speed Control19.42
Service Brakes9.71
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)9.71
Forward Collision Avoidance9.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 15 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Hyundai: all 44 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/sonata-plug-in-hybrid/. 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 Sonata Plug-In Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
2017 with 2, 2016 with 2, 2018 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2017 model year, with 32 of the 63 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid name?
Engine: 349.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 242.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 126.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.