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Other speed control problem on the 2014 Hyundai Sonata

2 crashes 2 of the 16 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.

Reports of this failure 16
With an odometer reading 12
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 50%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 17th

When other speed control problem gets reported

Owners of the 2014 Hyundai Sonata report other speed control problem at a median of 35,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 90,000 miles, from 12 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 100,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 86,482 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.

50% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 12 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
15,500 miles 22,663 miles 34,400 miles 90,704 miles 101,982 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, 2 a crash 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 $250–$2,000 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 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 700 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 140,000 miles.

By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 56; the 2014 has 16. 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. 1997 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1999 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 89k
  3. 2000 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 56k
  4. 2001 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 124k
  5. 2002 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 140k
  6. 2003 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 90k
  7. 2004 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 30k
  8. 2005 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 40k
  9. 2006 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 102k
  10. 2007 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 74k
  11. 2008 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 33k
  12. 2009 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 61k
  13. 2010 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 7k
  14. 2011 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 57k
  15. 2012 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 71k
  16. 2013 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 30k
  17. 2014 (this one) 34k
  18. 2015 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 50k
  19. 2016 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 45k
  20. 2017 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 21k
  21. 2018 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 9k
  22. 2019 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 3k
  23. 2020 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 700
  24. 2021 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2022 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 3k
  26. 2023 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem 6k
  27. 2024 Hyundai Sonata other speed control problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2025 Hyundai Sonata other speed control 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

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

1) the miles per gallon reading is unpredictable its advertised to give around 27 combined but I have never reached that 27 mpg, though I drive in low RPM ) the vehicle does not slow down for long distance even after releasing the gas pedal resulting in abrupt braking in lieu of gradual braking in stop & go traffic 2) the drivers side seat malfunctioned at around 15,000 miles 3) the car has a leak from 1000 miles onwards but the service center refuses to help, I called hyundai they advise me to call the service center, I feel as if after a valuable investment there's no customer satisfaction or customer redressed process. 4) lack of corporate service department that can answer warranty related questions. *tr

15,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1118079 filed 2014-10-07

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 hyundai sonata. While driving at various speeds, the vehicle accelerated independently without any warning. The contact stated that the vehicle had to be shifted into park in order to decelerate. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 3,800.

3,800 miles NHTSA complaint 1166405 filed 2015-03-17

My vehicle has for the last year showed signs of the recall and we have gotten a hyundai to fix it with a ring but the next day the vehicle showed the same things. The symbol in the middle that displays drive when it disappears the car struggles to accelerate and drive , and when I come to a complete stop with it disappereared the car takes alot of gas to accelerate. Which I believe is from the transmission and the car not being on the same page.. Which is terrible as it can cost a lost of life due to the car suddenly stopping and it is a extreme hazard to myself and my family. And I wish that hyundai would do something or replace the vehicle.

20,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1247300 filed 2015-12-22

Also reported on the 2014 Hyundai Sonata

Other engine problem

204 reports median 89k

Other electrical problem

76 reports median 78k

Other lighting problem

61 reports median 75k

Other fuel system problem

58 reports median 83k

Other powertrain problem

36 reports median 50k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 16 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 speed control problem happen on the 2014 Hyundai Sonata?

Across 12 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 90,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other speed control problem on the 2014 Hyundai Sonata?

16 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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