Other driver assistance problem on the 2007 Hyundai Santa FE
When other driver assistance problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Hyundai Santa FE report other driver assistance problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles, from 32 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 40,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 122,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 83,748 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
6% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40,000 miles | 66,000 miles | 84,350 miles | 104,750 miles | 123,748 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,800 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 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
We bought a brand new 2007 hyundai santa fe on 8/20/07. The "esc off" light intermittently illuminates on the dashboard. The first time I took it to the dealer for the problem was at 765 miles on 9/13/07. A special part was ordered per the repair order. The next time I took it to the dealer for the same problem was on 10/4/07 at 1863 miles. On 9/4/08 at 14721 miles, it happened again. This time I had an incident right near the dealer where the car lurched forward and pulled to the right. Thankfully I did not have an accident. The repair order states the dealer could not duplicate customer concern. On 10/2/08, at 15462 miles, I again took the car to the dealer to have the car looked at for the same problem, the "esc off" light illuminating on the dash. The repair order states a "tab broken?" on 10/13/08, I was driving down I-95 in cherry hill, nj (125 miles from home) when the "esc off" light came on again. The car again made a scraping noise under the engine. The car suddenly lurched forward again. I was able to pull to the side of the road. I turned the car off, turned it back on and pulled onto the highway again. The same thing…
Stop lamp switch replaced without any problem noted on 28 oct 2009 by dealer under recall. 3 october 2011 the electronic stability control off switch illuminates and dealer replaces stop lamp switch and charges $71.00. Hyundai states these are valid charges on this recalled item since it was already replaced once. *tr
Esc off indicator stays illuminated problem: no brake lights. Dealership states my vehicle is outside the manufacture date range included in the tsb campaign # 092 / 09-01-018 and will not replace the stop lamp switch under warranty. (my santa fe was manufactured in june 2007). Approx. $75 replacement cost for a known issue. According to online forums this problem is not limited to the manufacture dates indicated in the tsb. This is a serious safety issue; one that I would have hoped hyundai would take more seriously. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Hyundai Santa FE
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
Other visibility problem
Other fuel system problem
Oil leak
Cruise control failure
Other brake problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 40 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other driver assistance problem happen on the 2007 Hyundai Santa FE?
Across 32 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other driver assistance problem on the 2007 Hyundai Santa FE?
40 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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