2023 HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 Complaints

First indication something was going awry was when attempting to charge the car. Heard normal click indicating charge had started, but no audible announcement that charging had started. Car started throwing "Check electrical system," then power plummeted and became unresponsive to accelerator, followed by "Stop car. Check electrical system," then finally something like, "Battery is being discharged by external devices."** Car had to be towed about 60 miles to nearest Hyundai EV service center. Eight days later, I got a call from service saying that the ICCU needs to be replaced. They will update me once ETA of part is known.

Electrical system warning lights came on and loud alarm indicating the need to stop the vehicle immediately. Diagnosed by mechanic as ICCU failure and associated 12V battery issues—so, typical Ioniq5 problems. Just lucky I wasn’t driving on the highway.

I was driving at night on a freeway marked as a 65mph speed limit. I had the adaptive cruise control turned on and set to automatically follow the road speed limit. There was intermittent rain at the time. Suddenly my car began to accelerate, but I was able to stop the acceleration by stepping on the brake to disengage cruise control. I tried re-engaging cruise control and it immediately accelerated strongly again. That is when I noticed the cruise control speed had been set to 85mph. I disengaged cruise control for the rest of my trip home and was able to drive normally. Subsequently I learned that the car detects speed limits by both map data and visually recognizing speed limit signs, so I assume it mis-identified a 65mph sign as 85mph. The auto speed feature set the cruise control speed to 85mph even though that is much higher than any possible speed limit in California. I disabled the auto speed feature of the adaptive cruise control and have not had any problem since then.

I attempted to drive my car to work. The car started but would not shift into gear. A red battery light indicator was on in the lower left corner of the screen. I contacted my dealer and they asked me to jump my car and bring it in. I did that. They indicated that my car had experienced ICCU failure and that a part would need to be ordered. The car had already been updated to address the ICCU failure, or so I thought. This is a known issue with 2022 models.

The vehicle made a loud popping noise and lost motive power. Dashboard lit up with battery symbol and said to check electric vehicle system. Dealer service is certain it is an ICCU failure. The vehicle had the software update to “fix” the ICCU issue thousands of miles ago.

The car loses power, slows down dramatically, and will not respond to the accelerator pedal. This failure has happened twice. The first time I was driving at about 40MPH on a side street when the car started slowing down with no warning and limped along at about 20MPH. I could not get it to move faster so I put my flashers on and made my way to the side of the street, pulled off of the road and shut the car off. When I restarted the car it drove normally. I reported the failure to Hyundai and they had never heard of this happening. They kept the car for 2 days and couldn't replicate the problem. That was about 2 months ago. Yesterday, 3/4/24, I was on the freeway going about 74MPH using the smart cruise control. I had just changed lanes when the car lost power and I got the message, "Smart cruise conditions not met." My speed dropped to the low 40's as other cars were whipping past me. Even though I floored the accelerator I got no response. I started the flashers, made my way to the right lane and got off on an exit ramp. I pulled off to the side of the ramp, parked the car and turned it off. Once again, when I restarted the car it performed normally. This is very dangerous! I could have easily been rear ended by another, faster car on the freeway since I slowed down so quickly without braking lights lighting. I brought it back to the dealer again today and they have kept it to run diagnostics. I don't expect that they will find any problem this time either.

12v battery died this morning. The car main battery had 77% state of charge and still the 12v failed. The main battery is supposed to charge 12v as long as it is above 20% state of charge. This seems to be a wide spread problem and Hyundai is not taking any pro active steps in resolving this. All recommended TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) has been applied on the car and car was serviced last week and passed the multipoint inspection.

3 issues: 1. 2 x, driving over a hundred miles the sensors get faults. None of the sensors work. Does not detect other cars. They updated my firmware, wiping the faults. 2. Once stopped at stop light, the sensors can start detecting items not there. 3. When parking the car does not detect items that are there. (I have video, dealerships so far refuses to fix) I am still trying to get them to fix it. Additional concern, talking to other drivers, they have similar issues and responses from the Hyundai dealerships. This is for both the Ioniq 5 and 6. Pictures: shows no other car image, or sensor detection. I took the picture a behind to give context. I can provide the videos if needed. Answers to question, separated with a comma: Yes, answered above, trying to get confirmed, the car has been inspected by Hyundai service center, and the errors were wiped by a update + reset.

Vehicle was taken to dealer for recall repair. Upon completion i made sure everything was good to go. And realized the navigation system was not updating. Service agent took it back and was advise it needed a 4 hour update. Car stayed overnight. Following day they informed me they couldn’t find the problem and were in contact with tech support. They were advice to just replace the navigation antenna. Dealer has place the order for the antenna. My only problem is while we wait for the antenna my car’s location is at a random place so if it where to be taken there wouldn’t be a way for me to know the location of it.

The navigation system in this car has an additional feature which is always enabled even if a destination is not programmed into the nav system which is supposed to warn drivers if they are going the wrong way on a highway. Intermittently the system erroneously indicates that the driver is going the wrong way. A voice warning is repeated issued and a warning symbol is displayed on the instrument panel. It is shocking, very distracting and frightening at first. Then it becomes a driver irritation, and eventually the driver tries to ignore the constant warnings, completely defeating the purpose of the safety feature. I’ve seen on the Ioniq forums where other drivers have reported this intermittent problem. Our local dealer would not check our car because the nav system was not failing at the time we brought it in. The problem can last for 5 minutes and then stop or can last for a duration of a car trip. For drivers unaware of this problem, they could easily be frightened enough to cause unsafe driving.