Federal complaint record · Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2022

2022 Hyundai Santa Fe

Owners submitted 190 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 55th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2020 to 2024 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 18% · group n = 53Engine · 18% · group n = 52Other · 15% · group n = 45Electrical · 10% · group n = 30Fuel system · 10% · group n = 30
190
Complaint records on file
11,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 21 complaints reported mileage
18%
Of classified component entries name powertrain · group n = 53
55th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 39 model years

What the numbers tell you

Understanding the 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe complaints

Which systems appear most often?

The largest component group is powertrain: 53 entries, or 17.9% of classified component entries. Next is engine: 52 entries, or 17.6% of classified component entries. A complaint can name several components, so these percentages describe the entries in the file, not the percentage of vehicles affected. Only the leading component groups are displayed.

At what mileage were problems reported?

The median reported mileage is 11,000 miles, based on 21 complaints with usable mileage (11.1% of the 190 complaint incidents). Half of those reported mileages are at or below the median and half at or above it. This sample excludes missing or unusable mileage and does not predict when another vehicle will develop a problem.

Use these patterns to prepare questions about a particular vehicle's service history. Complaint reports describe submitted experiences; they do not establish the cause, repair cost, or condition of every 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe. Read the symptom groups below alongside the source documents and a VIN-specific recall check.

Powertrain · 17.9% of classified component entries

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain18%

Powertrain reports

Hyundai Santa Fe · model year 2022

Component entries in this group53
Share of classified component entries17.9%
Leading component groups shown6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years

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

Reported problems with the 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe

How clusters are built
Transmission behavior · 26 reports

26 of the 190 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe complaint incidents were assigned to the transmission behavior group.

13.7% of this model year's complaint incidents matched this group first in the keyword screen. This is a text classification, not a confirmed diagnosis.

Cluster 1 of 32022 Hyundai Santa Fe
Fire or smoke · 15 reports

15 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 7.9% of the 190 incidents on file.

Cluster 2 of 32022 Hyundai Santa Fe
Loss of propulsion · 14 reports

14 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 7.4% of the 190 incidents on file.

Cluster 3 of 32022 Hyundai Santa Fe

Each complaint is assigned to the first matching keyword group, even if it mentions several symptoms. Only the leading published groups are shown. Unmatched reports and other groups remain in the total, so these percentages need not add to 100%. A keyword match can miss context; it is not an owner quotation or proof of a defect.

Sources and further research

Research the 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe

This page summarizes owner-submitted NHTSA complaints through 2026-07-19. Complaint patterns do not establish a defect in every vehicle. The complaint counts here are not recall counts, and this page does not determine whether a particular vehicle has an open recall. Check a VIN for open recalls at NHTSA and read how MotorCensus processes the complaint data.

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