2007 Hyundai Accent
This year drew an ordinary 88 complaints for a Hyundai Accent — the model's median is 101. What they were about is the unusual part: 11.4% of them mention side seat, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Hyundai Accent, which began in 2006 and ran to 2011. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 88 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 101 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- side seat — 11.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: side seat, replacing, vehicle motion.
- help — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: help, please help, asked what, take car.
- deployed — 8% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.8×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, injury.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
IN 2012 AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT WAS ILLUMINATED. FIRST FIX WAS REPLACING A PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT BUCKLER IN 2012. AIR BAG LIGHT ILLUMINATED AGAIN IN JUNE 2016 AT 133,000 MILES AND MECHANIC READ THE CODE: B1448 PASSENGER OSC DEFECT. SAID THE PASSENGER SIDE AIR…
SAME PROBLEM AS OTHERS. "AIR BAG" WARNING STAYS LIGHTED NO MATTER WHAT. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT PEOPLE ARE DISCOVERING THAT IT'S THE PASSENGER SEAT SENSOR AND THAT THE REPAIR IS $1000. THEY HAVE RECALLED THIS SAME PART ON SONATAS (SAME YEAR) BUT NOT HE ACCENTS. WE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09V122000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V113000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 09V280000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Hyundai Accent was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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