AutoUtility currently tracks 22 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2019 Hyundai Ioniq. Driver Assistance & Safety Tech issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 10 complaints (45.5% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 6 filings cite a crash, 1 cites a fire, 4 report one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 22 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (10 reports • 45.5% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Electrical System (8), Brakes & Traction Control (6)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 6 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 4 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
22
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
6
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
4
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2019 Hyundai Ioniq

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 45.5% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

10 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 3 crash reports 🔥 1 fire report 🩹 3 injury report entries
#2 Problem Area 36.4% of complaints

Electrical System

8 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
⚠️ 2 crash reports 🩹 2 injury report entries
#3 Problem Area 27.3% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

6 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 2 crash reports 🔥 1 fire report 🩹 2 injury report entries
#4 Problem Area 9.1% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 2 crash reports 🩹 3 injury report entries
#5 Problem Area 9.1% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 1 injury report entry
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2019 Hyundai Ioniq

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #11744771
Filed: 06/17/2026

"Engine Code: P090A01 The Hyundai IONIQ Blue lost reverse and while driving I experienced loss of power only to regain then lose then regain (a bucking motion). The drive significantly declined. Fortunately, I was able to get back home without injury. Vehicle towed to dealership where it currently..."

Incident Date: 06/06/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11714614
Filed: 01/30/2026

"The system lost its ability to audibly warn me of various conditions that were a risk to everybody in the car. Examples of alerts we could not here were: blind spot collision warning, cross traffic while backing up, driver attention alert when hands are not on the steering wheel, and audible..."

Incident Date: 01/15/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,LANE DEPARTURE,BACK OVER PREVENTION
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11693129
Filed: 10/13/2025

"What component or system failed or malfunctioned, and is it available for inspection upon request? Braking and acceleration control, yes How was your safety or the safety of others put at risk? The car continued to move/accelerate after depressing the brake pedal, and upon applying additional force..."

Incident Date: 10/12/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,SERVICE BRAKES
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11692977
Crash Cited Filed: 10/12/2025

"While attempting to park and depressing the brake the car made a sudden acceleration without input and hard braking did not slow the car. The car then impacted the curb. On another occasion while stopped at a red light the car began to move forward while the break was depressed. Pressing the break..."

Incident Date: 10/03/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,SERVICE BRAKES
Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11679567
Crash Cited Filed: 08/09/2025

"1. Component/System Failure: The airbag system failed to deploy during a collision. Yes, the vehicle is available for inspection upon request. 2. Safety Risk: On August 5th, while driving on the highway, my vehicle was involved in head collision. Despite the severity of the impact, the airbags did..."

Incident Date: 08/05/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: AIR BAGS
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Hyundai Ioniq

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2017–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2017 Hyundai Ioniq 49 5 5 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Hyundai Ioniq 13 2 3 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Hyundai Ioniq Current Page 22 6 2 Current
2020 Hyundai Ioniq 29 6 1 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Hyundai Ioniq 0 0 0 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Hyundai Ioniq 21 2 0 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Hyundai Ioniq 0 0 0 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Hyundai Ioniq 0 0 0 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Hyundai Ioniq 0 0 0 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 0 0 0 View 2026 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2019 Hyundai Ioniq

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 20 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 2 0 0 0 0
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,SERVICE BRAKES 2 1 0 0 0
Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS 1 1 0 0 0
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,EXTERIOR LIGHTING 1 1 0 1 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,STRUCTURE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
ENGINE,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Forward Collision Avoidance NHTSA category: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,LANE DEPARTURE,BACK OVER PREVENTION 1 0 0 0 0
POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 1 0 1 0
Seat Belts NHTSA category: SEAT BELTS 1 1 0 3 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES 1 0 0 0 0
Steering NHTSA category: STEERING 1 0 0 0 0
Vehicle Speed Control NHTSA category: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 0 0 0 0
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,SERVICE BRAKES 1 1 1 2 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (22). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.

Official NHTSA Defect Investigations (1)

1 CLOSED

Formal safety defect inquiries and engineering analyses opened by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI)

Official Federal Inquiries: NHTSA opens a defect investigation when safety screening or consumer defect trends indicate a potential unreasonable safety risk. An open investigation is a formal inquiry and does not by itself confirm a defect or result in a mandatory recall.
CLOSED Defect Petition (DP) ODI Action #DP22005
Opened: 2023-01-27 • Closed: 2023-08-07

Pedestrian alert sounds

Affected Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM

NHTSA received a petition on or about July 18, 2022, requesting that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the United States. The petition can be reviewed at NHTSA.gov under ODI Number 11486072. FMVSS 141 establishes performance requirements for pedestrian alert sounds for motor vehicles. The standard applies to hybrid and electric vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight ra...

✓ Resulted in Safety Recall Campaign: 22V063000 Official NHTSA File →
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.