2019 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid problems
The 2019 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid has 32 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (19%) concerns cruise control. After that come electrical system (12%) and forward collision avoidance (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 32 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Cruise control 19% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 11 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 11 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 11 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 99% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2019 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 4 model years of the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid with enough data (22 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
One morning, my father turned on the car. It was still in Park. He and my mom heard a noise, as if my dad was pushing on the gas pedal, but he was not. They turned off the car, turned it on again, and everything seemed fine. After driving for a bit, my father was back home and parking the car. Because of the way the parking lot is, you have to go slowly, less than 10 miles an hour, pushing on the gas a little to go up and incline and then turn right to slide into the parking spot as you break to finally park.
The contact owns a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq. The contact stated that while attempting to park into her son's parking pad, the vehicle independently accelerated reverse while in the reverse(R) position. The vehicle initially hit a gutter on the side of the house; as the vehicle continued to accelerate, the contact forcefully depressed the brake pedal but to no avail. The vehicle continued to accelerate in reverse as it hit a porch column which swung the vehicle around and off the parking pad.
For the second cold morning this year my ioniq stalled. I was parked in my driveway. Temperature was -3f, I press the power button, car tried to start and stalled three times in a row then got a check hybrid system warning message. I turned the car off then on again and it started to stall, I depressed the accelerator to keep a high idle for a minute. The car ran normal during my 7 mile commute after increasing the I.