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2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT — Complaint #1900321

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION filed June 7, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1900321 (ODI reference 11525801) concerns a 2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT and was filed on June 7, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 17, 2023. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication, 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 and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication 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 2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT
Component
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION
State
South Carolina

Complaint Description

2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT-Consumer is writing in with concerns and questions about the engine oil light indicator. Consumer checked the oil and it was dry. Consumers questions are: Why the engine oil light did not come on until there was almost no oil in the oil pan? There are no oil leaks under the vehicle. I am a retired Automotive Technician with 37 years for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC., and I have never seen this before. What happen to the warning and where did the oil go? Is there a recall on the Engine Oil Warning Light?

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1900321
ODI Number 11525801
Date Filed June 7, 2023
Failure Date May 17, 2023
VIN 99999999999

Similar ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION Complaints for 2018 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.