20V746000
ENGINE
A damaged engine can increase the risk of a fire or it can cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
2012 HYUNDAI SANTA FE
1 safety recall campaign, 6 defect investigations, 474 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations6
Owner complaints474
Complaints citing a crash41
Complaints citing a fire19
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
- 228ENGINE
- 40VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 39ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 25SERVICE BRAKES
- 24POWER TRAIN
- 16STEERING
- 16UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 14SUSPENSION
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 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.