2017 HYUNDAI TUCSON — Complaint #1557878
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 14, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557878 (ODI reference 11196170) concerns a 2017 HYUNDAI TUCSON and was filed on April 14, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 12, 2019. The vehicle had 15,600 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HYUNDAI TUCSON cohort independently describe similar power train failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2017 HYUNDAI TUCSON shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
FROM A STATIONARY POSITION, WHEN YOU APPLY THE GAS, THE CAR MAY LURCH AND JERK LIKE THE CLUTCH ISN'T FULLY ENGAGING AND THEN NOT MOVE AT ALL UNTIL THE IGNITION IS TURNED OFF AND BACK ON AGAIN. THIS CAN OCCUR IN REVERSE AS WELL. SOMETIMES, WHEN SITTING ON AN INCLINE, IN GEAR AND MAYBE WAITING FOR TRAFFIC TO CLEAR, THE CAR WILL ROLL BACK WHILE MOVING MY FOOT FROM THE BRAKE TO THE ACCELERATOR. THIS CAR HAS AN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON CITY STREETS AND THE LAST OCCURRENCE WAS OUTRIGHT DANGEROUS.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557878 |
| ODI Number | 11196170 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 12, 2019 |
| VIN | KM8J3CA27HU |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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