2014 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT — Complaint #1558399
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558399 (ODI reference 11196698) concerns a 2014 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 12, 2019. The vehicle had 98,820 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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 SANTA FE SPORT cohort independently describe similar engine 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 2014 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THE DEALER SUPPOSEDLY FIXED TWO RECALLS WITH THE ENGINE ON MY 2014 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT BASE. SUDDENLY, AND WITHOUT ANY AUDIBLE WARNING, MY ECM LIGHT CAME ON AND MY VEHICLE STARTING LUNGING AND LURCHING FORWARD LIKE IT WAS ABOUT TO STALL. I PULLED OVER AND READ THE MANUAL, AND IT NOTED THAT IT WAS THE ECM SENSOR AND THAT I SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DRIVE THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALERSHIP, SO I DID. DRIVING THERE, I WAS ONLY ABLE TO MAINTAIN A SPEED OF 60 MPH ON THE INTERSTATE, WHICH PUT ME AND MY 8 -YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN DANGER FROM FASTER-DRIVING CARS, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WAS A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR. ANY TIME I STOPPED OR SLOWED DOWN, THE ENGINE WOULD SHUTTER LIKE IT WAS ABOUT TO STALL AND THEN WOULD GET BETTER JUST PAST 10-20 MPH UNTIL I APPROACHED 60 AGAIN, WHERE IT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE AGAIN. WHEN I GOT TO THE DEALERSHIP, THEY IMMEDIATELY KNEW THE PROBLEM AND ORDERED A KNOCK SENSOR HARNESS. HOWEVER, IN READING THE VARIETY OF LAWSUITS, ISSUES,
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558399 |
| ODI Number | 11196698 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 12, 2019 |
| VIN | 5XYZU3LB8EG |
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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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