Hyundai Santa Fe owners have reported a total of 11,605 problems for their cars built in the 27 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Hyundai Santa Fe. The 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe cars have the most problems reported (1,612 problems).
The following chart shows the 36 most common problems for Hyundai Santa Fe cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (3,203 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's power train (967 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Hyundai Santa Fe of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Santa Fe model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Hyundai Santa Fe model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
| Santa Fe Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 346 | 112,681 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 261 | 62,729 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 233 | 153,958 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 281 | 130,000 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 518 | 24,287 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 1,612 | 61,218 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 356 | 18,825 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 419 | 20,049 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 864 | 23,184 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 1,032 | 18,141 | 13 | |
| 2012 | 470 | 59,414 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 261 | 69,687 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 325 | 55,473 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 501 | 78,578 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 710 | 84,870 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 969 | 114,461 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 136 | 33,222 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 296 | 74,816 | 21 | |
| 2004 | 382 | 131,891 | 22 | |
| 2003 | 384 | 97,746 | 23 | |
| 2002 | 213 | 81,773 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 290 | 51,044 | 25 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Hyundai Santa Fe is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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