2022 HYUNDAI KONA — Complaint #1796838
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:COIL filed February 21, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1796838 (ODI reference 11453303) concerns a 2022 HYUNDAI KONA and was filed on February 21, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 21, 2022. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:ignition:coil, 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 KONA cohort independently describe similar electrical system:ignition:coil 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 2022 HYUNDAI KONA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Randomly the check engine light turns on and the car begins to violently shake. This is the second day this already happened and only happened while on the highway. The car is only 3 weeks old with just over 1000 miles on it. After pulling over on the side of the road and turning the car off and on, the problem disappeared and the check engine light turns off. The vehicle does not acknowledge that there was an issue. After doing some research, it seems to be consistent with a common issue with Hyundai vehicles having defective ignition coils. Common issue in multiple Konas, Elantras and other Hyundai vehicle The danger of the control of the car on the highway when this issue occurs at random is sufficient enough to ensure that all these vehicles are recalled to get the problem fixed.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1796838 |
| ODI Number | 11453303 |
| Date Filed | February 21, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 21, 2022 |
| VIN | KM8K3CAB9NU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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