Federal complaint record · Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2011

2011 Hyundai Santa Fe

Owners submitted 181 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 38th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2009 to 2013 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 27% · group n = 72Electrical · 10% · group n = 26Speed control · 9% · group n = 24Brakes · 9% · group n = 23Powertrain · 8% · group n = 21
181
Complaint records on file
44,100
Median mileage at the reported problem · 149 complaints reported mileage
27%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 72
38th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 39 model years

Engine · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine27%

Engine reports

Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2011

Reports in this group72
Share of classified reports27%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
256 matched incidents
This car
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
181 matched incidents
2012
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
352 matched incidents

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
Stalling or shutdown · 34 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32011 Hyundai Santa Fe
Brake performance · 33 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32011 Hyundai Santa Fe
Fire or smoke · 22 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32011 Hyundai Santa Fe

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

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