AutoUtility currently tracks 17 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz. Driver Assistance & Safety Tech issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 9 complaints (52.9% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 1 cites a fire.
- • Total NHTSA Complaints: 17 reports
- • #1 Reported Problem Area: Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (9 reports • 52.9% of submitted complaints)
- • Secondary Problem Areas: Exterior Lighting (3), Electrical System (3)
- • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
- • Fire-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
- • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Most Reported Problems for 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz
Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech
NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:
- Campaign #26V316000 FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
Exterior Lighting
Electrical System
NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:
- Campaign #24V877000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
Brakes & Traction Control
Engine & Cooling
Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz
Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
"The contact owns a 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds at night on several occasions, the headlights were dim and created a shadow across the roadway. The vehicle was taken to a dealer on multiple occasions. The dealer was initially unable to duplicate..."
"The contact owned a 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, a loud popping noise was suddenly heard coming from the engine compartment with no warning lights illuminated. The contact stated that immediately following the failure, the power steering..."
"While driving at night I happened to notice that the headlights failed to illuminate the road sufficiently. Specifically, the truck was going downhill. As it approached the bottom and soon to go uphill, I noticed that there was a strict delineation in what was lit up and what was not. Being on a..."
"I was driving on a highway at 55mph at night today 3/1/2026 and all of a sudden the headlights, instrumentation lights, and computer display went out, very scary, the all turned back on about 1.5 seconds later."
"The contact owns a 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz. The contact stated that after a month of owning the vehicle, while attempting to start the vehicle, the Forward Collision Avoidance warning light and other unknown warning lights illuminated. The contact stated that the Forward Collision Avoidance warning..."
Complaint History for Hyundai Santa Cruz
Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2022–2026)
| Model Year | NHTSA Complaints | Crash Reports | Safety Recalls | Detailed Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz | 179 | 4 | 4 | View 2022 Problems → |
| 2023 Hyundai Santa Cruz | 77 | 2 | 2 | View 2023 Problems → |
| 2024 Hyundai Santa Cruz | 35 | 3 | 1 | View 2024 Problems → |
| 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz Current Page | 17 | 1 | 3 | Current |
| 2026 Hyundai Santa Cruz | 0 | 0 | 3 | View 2026 Problems → |
Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz
Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 10 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications
| Vehicle Component / System | Total Complaints | Crash Reports | Fire Reports | Reported Injury Entries | Reported Fatality Entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Collision Avoidance NHTSA category: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,EXTERIOR LIGHTING | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,LANE DEPARTURE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.