2015 Hyundai Genesis

Typical pattern

8.5% of complaints about the 2015 Hyundai Genesis came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2015 vehicle — around the middle of the 195 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 6.3 yr in service. The most-reported system is electrical system (115 complaints), typically at 8.8 yr or about 40,002 miles.

Complaints: 433
Median age at failure: 6.3 yr
Median mileage: 31,000 n=217
Crash / fire / tow: 7.4% of reports
Safety recalls: 6 2 do not drive

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

System

0y2y4y6y8y10y12y14y

Electrical system

115 reports · 40,002 mi

8.8 yr

7.8%

Engine

45 reports · 23,795 mi

8.6 yr

4.4%

Exterior lighting

43 reports · 38,000 mi

4.8 yr

2.3%

Other

41 reports · 29,038 mi

6.6 yr

14.6%

Steering

29 reports · 29,400 mi

5.2 yr

3.4%

Power train

23 reports · 31,400 mi

4.5 yr

4.3%

Structure

21 reports · 29,800 mi

5.8 yr

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

24V107000 2024-02-13 Do not drive

Electrical system:starter assembly:solenoid

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Genesis, 2017-2019 Genesis G80, Genesis G90, and 2019 Genesis G70 vehicles. Water may enter the starter solenoid and cause an electrical short, which can result in an engine compartment fire while parked or driving.

An engine compartment fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.

21V160000 2021-03-10 Do not drive

Service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip:control unit/module

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Genesis and 2017-2020 Genesis G80 vehicles. The Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) module could malfunction and short circuit.

An electrical short circuit inside the ABS module could cause an engine compartment fire while parked or driving.

17V359000 2017-06-05

Parking brake:indicator light

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Sonata and Genesis vehicles. In the affected vehicles, the warning light to indicate that the parking brake is applied may intermittently not illuminate in the dash due to corrosion in the switch.

If the parking brake indicator is not illuminated when the parking brake is applied, the driver may operate the vehicle with the parking brake partially engaged, increasing the risk of a crash.

16V575000 2016-08-02

Electrical system: instrument cluster/panel

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain model year 2015 Genesis sedans manufactured February 1, 2015, through May 20, 2015. The affected vehicles are equipped with a seven-inch TFT-LCD instrument cluster that may display an incorrect vehicle speed or may illuminate all of the warning lights or not illuminate a warning light that needs to be lit.

If the instrument cluster displays the vehicle speed or illuminates the warning lights incorrectly there would be an increased risk of a crash.

15V864000 2015-12-22

Tires:sidewall

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain model year 2015 Genesis vehicles manufactured March 3, 2014, to February 9, 2015, and equipped with Hankook Ventus S1 noble2 tires installed as original equipment. The affected tires may develop cracks in the tire sidewall, resulting in a loss of air.

Tire sidewall cracks could cause a rupture during use, resulting in a rapid air loss and loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.

15V097000 2015-02-19

Electrical system

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain model year 2015 Genesis vehicles manufactured February 21, 2014, to January 24, 2015. Water may leak into the rear combination lamp assemblies and cause an incorrect gear display on the instrument panel or a delay in the engagement of the selected gear when the vehicle is shifted from Park to Reverse or Drive.

If the incorrect gear is being displayed, the vehicle may move in an unintended direction, increasing the risk of a crash.

In owners’ own words

Structure 2,000 mi 2 mo in service

FRONT RIGHT DOOR (DRIVERS DOOR) DOES NOT CLOSE PROPERLY. WHEN YOU PULL IT CLOSED FROM THE INSIDE, OR PUSH IT FROM OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT HAS CLOSED BUT UPON INSPECTION YOU FIND IT IS ONLY CLOSED TO THE FIRST LATCH. MANY TIMES I HAVE BEEN DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND HAD AN ALARM COME ON TELLING ME THE DOOR WAS NOT CLOSED.

Structure 2,830 mi 1.3 yr in service

WHILE DRIVING ON EXPRESSWAY AT NORMAL HIGHWAY SPEED WE HEARD A VERY LOUD NOISE, AND A FEW SECONDS LATER THE HEAD LINER OF THE CAR STARTED TO FLAP DUE TO WIND INTERFERENCE. WE SOON REALIZED THAT OUR SUNROOF WAS BROKEN. GLASS SHARDS WERE MOSTLY HELD BACK BY HEADLINER. HOWEVER, SOME GLASS SHARDS FELL INTO PASSENGER COMPARTMENT. WE WERE NOT INJURED. WE STOPPED AND SAW THAT THE REMAINING GLASS POINTED UPWARDS, AND THAT THE SUNROOF WINDOW FRAME DID NOT SEEM TO BE BENT. THESE DETAILS SEEMS TO INDICATE AN EXPLOSION OF THE GLASS INSTEAD OF A HIT FROM A FOREIGN OBJECT.

Structure 9,500 mi 9 mo in service

DEFECTIVE PANORAMIC SUNROOF. HAS FAILED TO BE REPAIRED AND CONSTANTLY CREEKS AND POPS AS IF IT IS GOING TO FLY OFF ROOF. HYUNDAI CORPORATE REPAIRED THE CAR EARLIER THIS YEAR AND REPLACED THE ROOF, BUT IT IS WORSE NOW THAN IT WAS PRIOR TO THE REPAIR. THE ROOF MAKES NOISES AT ANY SPEED.

Electrical system 300 mi 4 mo in service

WHILE DRIVING AT 60 MPH, SPEEDOMETER, ODOMETER, TURN SIGNALS, POWER STEERING ASSIST AND OTHER ACCESSORIES STOPPED FUNCTIONING. *TR

Other Genesis model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.