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Transmission · 6 owner reports

Other powertrain problem on the 2021 Hyundai Elantra

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 6
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$4,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 8th

When other powertrain problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other powertrain problem on the 2021 Hyundai Elantra. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 26 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2016 at 100,000 miles.

By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 42; the 2021 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 67k
  3. 1998 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 69k
  4. 1999 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 71k
  5. 2000 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 57k
  6. 2001 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 27k
  7. 2002 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 47k
  8. 2003 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 66k
  9. 2004 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 53k
  10. 2005 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 50k
  11. 2006 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 46k
  12. 2007 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 77k
  13. 2008 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 89k
  14. 2009 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 58k
  15. 2010 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 40k
  16. 2011 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 70k
  17. 2012 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 24k
  18. 2013 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 64k
  19. 2014 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 95k
  20. 2015 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 55k
  21. 2016 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 100k
  22. 2017 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 41k
  23. 2018 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 41k
  24. 2019 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 63k
  25. 2020 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 5k
  26. 2021 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2022 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 15k
  28. 2023 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem 15k
  29. 2024 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  30. 2025 Hyundai Elantra other powertrain problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2021 Hyundai Elantra

Cruise control failure

35 reports median 109k

Other electrical problem

20 reports median 43k

Other engine problem

11 reports median 16k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 6 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 6 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed