Stalling while driving on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata
1 fire 1 of the 9 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 6 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.
When stalling while driving gets reported
There are 9 reports of stalling while driving on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 94,000 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
Of these reports, 1 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 9 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2017 at 175,000 miles.
By volume the 2011 carries the most reports, with 74; the 2000 has 9. 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.
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.
While driving at about 35 MPH the engine stalled then restarted while in motion. Then the vehicle started hesitating form a stand still and felt like it did not want to accelerate. I contacted the dealer and the following day they found a faulty cam sensor which they replaced. Two days later the vehicle started hesitating from a standstill and then started stalling when at a stop I.e.red lights. I contacted the dealer on 6/28 and they checked the car the next day. They agreed with the hesitation problem and said the history code for the cam sensor failure had not been cleared. Seemed a little fishy to me. I asked if this would remedy the problem. The response was if it didn't give them another call. I said what if I am on the highway and it fails. The dealer said " call the road service number and have the car towed to them" that seemed to me to be a very short sighted view of a very dangerous condition. I cannot call if I am killed because the car stalls on the highway or it is in the middle of the night and I don't have a cell phone?. They designed, manufactured and warranted t the car. Seems to me it should be emcumbent on them…
Tl*- the contact owns a 2000 hyundai sonata gls, with a current mileage of 134,000 miles. She stated that the vehicle lost power while driving at a low speed. Whenever the vehicle lost power she pulled the vehicle to the side of the road to restart it. After restarting the vehicle it would accelerate at a low speed. The failure mileage was 102,000. The dealer performed a tune up, and informed her that the spark plug wires were burned. There is a recall for the electrical system wiring recall # 00v259001. As of 4-18-07 the failure occurred 25 times .
Engine stalled as I was turning in an intersection, I avoided a crash. Reported to dealer as it happened 3 more times. They replaced my battery and gave me a carfax report and denied any recalls, even though I showed them a printout of one on this website. Check engine light on several times ,taken to auto store and put on diagnostic machine, maf sensor defective as stated on printout x2 separate occasions .still stalls at lights, and also stalls when either changing to reverse or vise versa. My kids are scared to ride with me. This stalling is happening on approx an every other day basis.dealer has been made aware and denies anything is wrong according to "their" diagnostic computer, yet will not allow me visual confirmation of such. I think I am unfortunately the victim of a lemon, and if I could afford to I would just drop it off at their doorstep and let the finance company know. By the way, finance co is aware of these problems and are not pleased at all of how the dealer is handling this because they got ripped off too. No parts have been replaced except for the battery which was unnecessary and they know it. Below I will…
Also reported on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata
Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
Other body or interior problem
Other suspension problem
Other electrical problem
Rust or structural corrosion
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 9 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 9 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 stalling while driving happen on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 95,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is stalling while driving on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata?
9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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