14V435000
SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS
If the front coil spring fractures due to corrosion it could cause the coil spring to make contact with the tire, possibly puncturing the tire and increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
2001 HYUNDAI SANTA FE
1 safety recall campaign, 3 defect investigations, 293 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints293
Complaints citing a crash7
Complaints citing a fire5
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
- 38SUSPENSION
- 29SUSPENSION:REAR
- 11POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 11ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
- 11ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
- 10ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 10STEERING
- 9VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2001 HYUNDAI SANTA FEs 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.