AutoUtility currently tracks 47 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2024 Hyundai Kona. Electrical System issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 31 complaints (66% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 5 filings cite a crash, 4 report one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 47 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Electrical System (31 reports • 66% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Engine & Cooling (8), Steering System (6)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 5 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 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
47
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
5
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
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 2024 Hyundai Kona

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

#1 Problem Area 66% of complaints

Electrical System

31 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 🩹 3 injury report entries
#2 Problem Area 17% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

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:

  • Campaign #24V308000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL:GAS RECIRCULATION VALVE (EGR VALVE)
*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.
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 12.8% of complaints

Steering System

6 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 3 crash reports 🩹 5 injury report entries
#4 Problem Area 12.8% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

6 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 3 crash reports 🩹 3 injury report entries
#5 Problem Area 10.6% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

5 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
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%.

Symptoms Mentioned in NHTSA Owner Reports for 2024 Hyundai Kona

Specific mechanical, electrical, and driver-assist defect symptoms identified via deterministic narrative analysis

AutoUtility uses deterministic phrase matching to identify recurring symptom descriptions within consumer-submitted NHTSA complaint narratives.

Powertrain & Transmission 8.5% of complaints

Loss of Motive Power While Driving

4 complaint narratives describe this symptom
Symptom Identification Method: A complaint may describe more than one symptom, so percentages may sum to more than 100%. Symptom identification reflects text contained in consumer-submitted complaint records and does not establish a confirmed mechanical diagnosis.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2024 Hyundai Kona

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

Steering System NHTSA ODI ID: #11758234
1 Injury Entry Filed: 08/20/2026

"The contact leased a 2024 Hyundai Kona. The contact stated that while driving 30 MPH, the steering wheel independently turned from the left to the right, and the contact lost control of the vehicle. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact experienced temporary left wrist pain but had..."

Incident Date: 08/11/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: STEERING
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11756933
Filed: 08/14/2026

"I was driving the speed control panel completely gets blackout for a few second and come back ( dash board ) it happened five times so far and the car is 37,000 MI"

Incident Date: 07/30/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11754714
Filed: 08/04/2026

"While driving at night the entire electrical system went out for a few seconds. Headlights out, dash full out, then after a few seconds it came back on. Just like this issue: [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)"

Incident Date: 08/01/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Steering System NHTSA ODI ID: #11752393
Filed: 07/23/2026

"The car shuts off at random times during me driving . Its like the car locks up steering and shuts completely down . Have to pull over and give the car time . And it shuts back on in and drives with poor accelerate after each issuse. The car is now shaking and making popping sounds while driving ."

Incident Date: 08/01/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: STEERING,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,ENGINE
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11752258
Filed: 07/22/2026

"While I was driving, my car turned off and on again while the car was in motion. I wasn't in an accident, but I did notice the headlights turn off, my dashboard turn off, and a red light appear on the dashboard before the car turned itself back on."

Incident Date: 07/22/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER
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 Kona

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2018–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2018 Hyundai Kona 74 9 0 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Hyundai Kona 187 11 1 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Hyundai Kona 154 8 2 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Hyundai Kona 141 3 1 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Hyundai Kona 103 3 2 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Hyundai Kona 67 4 2 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Hyundai Kona Current Page 47 5 3 Current
2025 Hyundai Kona 28 2 0 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Hyundai Kona 0 0 3 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 2024 Hyundai Kona

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
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 16 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,ENGINE 3 0 0 0 0
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 3 0 0 0 0
Powertrain NHTSA category: POWER TRAIN 3 0 0 0 0
STEERING,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,SERVICE BRAKES 3 2 0 3 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,EXTERIOR LIGHTING,VISIBILITY/WIPER 2 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER 2 0 0 0 0
Forward Collision Avoidance NHTSA category: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 2 0 0 0 0
Steering NHTSA category: STEERING 2 1 0 2 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,EXTERIOR LIGHTING 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,EXTERIOR LIGHTING,SEAT BELTS 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 0 0 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES 1 1 0 0 0
SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
STEERING,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
STRUCTURE,SEATS,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Suspension NHTSA category: SUSPENSION 1 1 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
Visibility / Glass NHTSA category: VISIBILITY 1 0 0 0 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 (47). 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 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.