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2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 engine problems

20 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the engine on the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 57% of all complaints for this model year.

20
Engine complaints
7%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
1 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Full electrical power system failure. Heard a loud pop noise emanating from under the rear seats of the car. The power. Failure lights came on and the car lost power. We were able to get the car to slowly drive back to the garage where it completely shut down and was inoperable from that point on…

    filed Sep 8, 2026

  • I heard a loud popped sound from the back of my car while driving home. The car lost power and eventually died on the street. The war displacy came on to tell em to check electrical system. I originally bought th car from Capitol Huyndai in San Jose on September 2025 and it has 5992 miles. I towed…

    filed Aug 31, 2026

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Engine problems in other IONIQ 5 years

YearReportsShare
2026 IONIQ 514%
2024 IONIQ 52210%
2023 IONIQ 53710%
2022 IONIQ 5369%
IONIQ 5 engine problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.