By model year

Hyundai Sonata by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Hyundai Sonata, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 3 (2026) to 3,378 (2011). The complaint file is dated Oct 23, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates. A higher count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported.

ABOUT THIS DATA

The table lists raw counts from NHTSA's files. A larger complaint count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported. The counts are not divided by sales. This page does not rank one model year above another.

One row per model year. Complaint and recall figures are matched raw counts.

2000	4	276	20	9	2	Pre-2011	20–22
2001	3	205	27	0	2	Pre-2011	20–22
2002	7	320	31	4	4	Pre-2011	20–23
2003	6	199	17	2	3	Pre-2011	20–23
2004	1	202	22	2	1	Pre-2011	20–23
2005	1	165	26	2	0	Pre-2011	20–23
2006	9	1,047	43	9	5	Pre-2011	21–25
2007	5	696	30	6	5	Pre-2011	21–25
2008	3	425	19	11	4	Pre-2011	22–25
2009	2	460	21	11	3	Pre-2011	22–25
2010	2	345	19	3	3	Pre-2011	22–25
2011	14	3,378	116	112	8	4–5	26–36
2012	8	1,558	51	95	7	5	26–36
2013	9	1,916	93	98	9	5	26–37
2014	7	750	29	40	7	5	24–37
2015	9	1,153	34	48	4	5	24–37
2016	6	728	19	28	4	5	24–41
2017	3	766	28	11	3	5	24–42
2018	1	374	18	13	2	5	26–42
2019	0	162	8	6	2	5	26–42
2020	4	181	5	1	1	5	31–52
2021	4	134	7	0	1	5	27–52
2022	3	94	8	1	0	5	27–52
2023	2	88	5	0	0	5	27–52
2024	1	46	1	0	0	5	27–47
2025	0	17	0	0	0	5	27–47
2026	1	3	0	0	0	5	27–51
2027 · no NHTSA name match	0	0	0	0	0	5	26–51

Star columns say "Pre-2011" for older model years because those ratings use a different NHTSA method. Overall stars for 2011 and newer are the matched Safety Ratings variants. A dash means no overall star was matched.