21V301000
ENGINE
A damaged engine may stall, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, oil may leak onto hot exhaust components, increasing the risk of a fire.
2019 HYUNDAI KONA
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 243 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints243
Complaints citing a crash18
Complaints citing a fire6
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 126ENGINE
- 20UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 17POWER TRAIN
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 9FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 7ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 6VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 5AIR BAGS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2019 HYUNDAI KONAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.