Hyundai: 26 published Texas lemon law decisions
Every published TxDMV decision naming Hyundai, for case-years 2014-2026, with what each order did and a link to the order itself.
This is not a census of Texas lemon vehicles, and no number on this page is a defect rate. Confidential settlements, manufacturer buybacks agreed before a hearing, and complaints withdrawn along the way never enter this corpus at all and are structurally invisible to it. What is counted here is contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a small and non-random slice of everything that goes wrong with a vehicle in Texas.
A manufacturer with more decisions here is not "more of a lemon" than one with fewer. It may simply have sold far more units in Texas, or its owners may be likelier to push a dispute to a contested hearing rather than settle. There is no sales or registration denominator behind these counts, so the division that would turn them into a rate cannot be done, and this site does not publish one.
What these 26 orders did
Counts of published proceedings naming Hyundai. These are not shares of anything: there is no figure here for how many vehicles Hyundai sold in Texas, so no proportion computed from this table would mean what it appears to mean.
| What the order did | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Repurchase ordered | 7 |
| Repair ordered | 11 |
| Dismissed | 8 |
Which vehicles these decisions were about
Make and model exactly as the source documents print them, so a model that two orders name differently appears twice rather than being silently merged. A model appearing more often is not a defect rate.
| Vehicle | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Hyundai Santa Fe | 5 |
| Hyundai Sonata | 4 |
| Hyundai Elantra | 2 |
| Hyundai Ioniq 5 | 2 |
| Hyundai Kona | 2 |
| Hyundai Palisade | 2 |
| Hyundai Equus Ultima | 1 |
| Hyundai Genesis | 1 |
| Hyundai Ioniq | 1 |
| Hyundai Santa Cruz | 1 |
| Hyundai Santa Fe Sport | 1 |
| Hyundai Tucson | 1 |
| Hyundai Tucson Sport | 1 |
| Hyundai Veloster | 1 |
| Hyundai Veloster N | 1 |
By vehicle model year
The model year of the vehicle at issue, not the year the decision issued.
| Model year | Decisions |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 |
Every Hyundai decision
26 recordsNewest decision first. Every row links the source document it was read from.
Source PDF 2023 Hyundai Sonata
engine stalls/dies without warning while driving Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe
engine control warnings and loss of acceleration Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5
automatic emergency braking and lane keep assist malfunction Dismissed
Source PDF 2020 Hyundai Veloster N
steering wheel/column locking up causing vehicle to swerve Repair ordered
Source PDF 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe
engine stalling, excessive oil consumption, and tailpipe smoking Repair ordered
Source PDF 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe
failure to accelerate above 30-35 mph Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
check engine light and delayed acceleration Repair ordered
Source PDF 2022 Hyundai Palisade
vehicle pulls to the right / steering Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2017 Hyundai Elantra
transmission slipping and banging into gear Repair ordered
Source PDF 2019 Hyundai Ioniq
power memory driver's seat does not recall stored settings Repair ordered
Source PDF 2014 Hyundai Tucson
engine knocking, oil leaks, transmission hesitation, check engine light Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Hyundai Tucson Sport
radio/audio system malfunction; engine complaints Repair ordered
Source PDF 2017 Hyundai Elantra
automatic emergency braking (AEB) system malfunction Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe
brakes, traction control warning light and cruise control Dismissed
Source PDF 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe
engine oil sludge and emissions system defect Repair ordered
Source PDF 2015 Hyundai Genesis
taillight condensation and air conditioning mildew odor Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2014 Hyundai Equus Ultima
driver's side rear view mirror fails to reset, intermittent back-up camera blackout, lane departure warning system disabled Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2015 Hyundai Sonata
hard starting and loss of power (drag feeling) Repair ordered
Source PDF 2013 Hyundai Veloster
corroded wiring harness connectors at the Power Control Module Dismissed
The honest use of this page is to read the orders. Every row links the document it came from, and those documents say what happened in a specific dispute over a specific vehicle: what the defect was, how many repair attempts there were, and what the examiner ordered.
The dishonest use is to treat the number at the top as a quality score. It counts contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a function of how many vehicles a manufacturer sells in Texas, how its warranty department handles disputes before they get that far, and how likely its owners are to push a case to hearing rather than accept an offer. Those are three different things, and none of them is the reliability of the vehicle.