2005 Hyundai Tucson problems
The 2005 Hyundai Tucson has 273 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (14%) concerns engine. Next are air bags (11%) and electrical system (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 273 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 14% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 16 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 22 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 60,000 miles 204 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 40 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 27 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 33 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 23 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 22 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 18 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 11 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 12 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 5 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 8 |
| 200k+ miles | 5 |
What the data shows
Of the 204 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 60,000 miles. For engine specifically, the median reported mileage is about 49,000 miles (33 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 16 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 22 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2005 ranks 10th most-complained-about out of 21 model years of the Hyundai Tucson with enough data (136 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 8 safety recall campaigns.
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.
We were in a huyundai 2005 tucson. We were t-boned on the driver's side. The police estimated her speed at approx. 45 MPH. She hit us just ahead of the rear wheel to approx the middle of the driver's door. The side air bags nor the curtain air bags deployed.
On 7-20-2011, I was driving about 35 MPH on a residential road around 1:30 p.m. A large vehicle in front of me, put on his left blinker & started to stop, I braked but still rear ended it. My air bag did not inflate, just the seat belt worked. I chipped a tooth on the steering wheel, got whiplash in my neck. Also my right breast developed a hematoma which grew larger every week, it was very painful, had to have tests to find out what the lump in breast was.
While traveling in snowy conditions, on a straight flat road, at approximately 35 MPH, my wife and I went into a slide in our 2005 hyundai tucson. After going off the road the car made impact with a tree at the passengers side door causing over $11,000 in damages not only to the outside but also the inside of the vehicle. The passengers side door was pushed into the vehicle approximately a 1ft, causing the roof and dashboard to buckle up, and the front end to bow outward to the passenger's side.
I was out of my town picking up a toddler I was going to babysit that night, I also had my own 1.5 year old in the vehicle, on my way back home the vehicles check engine light came on, and the car would not accelerate. We were in heavy traffic going roughly 50 MPH at the time this occurred. I pulled into the nearest gas station turned the vehicle off then started it back up again and the check engine light was off.