Federal complaint record · Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2008

2008 Hyundai Santa Fe

Owners submitted 541 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 76th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is fuel system. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Fuel system · 38% · group n = 274Electrical · 10% · group n = 75Airbags · 10% · group n = 70Engine · 10% · group n = 70Speed control · 7% · group n = 52
541
Complaint records on file
73,669
Median mileage at the reported problem · 458 complaints reported mileage
38%
Of classified component reports name fuel system · group n = 274
76th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 36 model years

Fuel system · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Fuel system38%

Fuel system reports

Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2008

Reports in this group274
Share of classified reports38%
Component groups on file6
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The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Warning indicators · 128 reports

Reports describe warning lights before service

Cluster 1 of 32008 Hyundai Santa Fe
Stalling or shutdown · 67 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32008 Hyundai Santa Fe
Airbag concerns · 62 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32008 Hyundai Santa Fe

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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