21V301000
ENGINE
A damaged engine may stall, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, oil may leak onto hot exhaust components, increasing the risk of a fire.
2021 HYUNDAI KONA
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 147 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints147
Complaints citing a crash2
Complaints citing a fire5
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 74ENGINE
- 18UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 13POWER TRAIN
- 10ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 4VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 4FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 3FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 3SERVICE BRAKES
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2021 HYUNDAI KONAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.