2009 Hyundai Accent
This year drew an ordinary 202 complaints for a Hyundai Accent — the model's median is 88. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.9% of them mention side door, against 2.1% 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 | 202 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 88 |
| Involving a crash | 18 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- side door — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: side door, manually, door lock, passenger door.
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
THE PASSENGER SIDE DOOR LOCK STOPPED WORKING ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. CAN NOT UNLOCK THE DOOR MANUALLY INSIDE OR WITH A KEY OUTSIDE OR WITH REMOTE. DESPITE THE AGE OF THE VEHICLE OR WARRANTY, THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT A SERIOUS SAFETY ISSUE, AND THE, NHTSA, SHOULD…
THE FRONT PASSENGER DOOR CAN ONLY BE OPENED FROM THE OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE USING THE CAR KEY. THE REAR PASSENGER DOOR CANNOT BE OPENED AT ALL AS THERE IS NO DOOR LOCK.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V566000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V113000 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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