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Suspension · 11 owner reports

Other suspension problem on the 2015 Hyundai Sonata

1 crash 1 fire 2 of the 11 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.

Reports of this failure 11
With an odometer reading 6
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 33%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $350–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 33rd

When other suspension problem gets reported

There are 11 reports of other suspension problem on the 2015 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 100,000 miles. It is the 33rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 6 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 50,000 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 crash and 1 a fire are 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 $350–$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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2003 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 2011 carries the most reports, with 72; the 2015 has 11. 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 Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1999 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 114k
  4. 2000 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 115k
  5. 2001 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 105k
  6. 2002 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 120k
  7. 2003 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 145k
  8. 2004 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 90k
  9. 2005 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 132k
  10. 2006 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 103k
  11. 2007 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 66k
  12. 2008 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 169k
  13. 2009 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 56k
  14. 2010 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 78k
  15. 2011 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 55k
  16. 2012 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 4k
  17. 2013 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 9k
  18. 2014 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 60k
  19. 2015 (this one) 50k
  20. 2016 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem 7k
  21. 2017 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2018 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2020 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2023 Hyundai Sonata other suspension problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2026 Hyundai Sonata other suspension 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.

In the snow, my hyundai sonata will drive fine until turning. During turning, even with minimal snow, my brakes lock up and my car slides slowly but at that point I am unable to do anything, usually making me hit a curb. This has happened twice in the last two weeks costing me $2200. I have had two cars before my hyundai sonata and haven't had issues with such a problem. The mechanic scratches his head in confusion as to how almost the exact same thing happen in such a small time frame. It is a major safety issue, I believe something with traction control or braking is wrong. Had I been a worse driver the damages could be worse.

18,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1245384 filed 2015-12-15

2 weeks ago, I found in my front passenger side tire a bauble and I took the tire to the discount tire to be checked. The tire specialist discovered other problems on both front tires. The tires are severely cupped the inside edge. He recommends me to check with the service dealership as soon as possible, he never ever experienced that type of problem in the past. Dealership service world car hyundai took the car for entire day and told me that they might think it needs to be done the alignment. I totally refused to do it because the alignment is perfectly fine, my steering wheel not turning in any direction and is not shaking while I am driving. This is what I found on forum! Http://www.sonataforums.com/index.php?page=active_topics

33,965 miles NHTSA complaint 1355399 filed 2017-02-12

Also reported on the 2015 Hyundai Sonata

Other engine problem

360 reports median 65k

Other electrical problem

104 reports median 60k

Excessive oil consumption

96 reports median 60k

Other powertrain problem

94 reports median 53k

Other body or interior problem

52 reports median 24k

Other steering problem

49 reports median 59k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 11 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 11 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 suspension problem happen on the 2015 Hyundai Sonata?

Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 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 other suspension problem on the 2015 Hyundai Sonata?

11 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