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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Azera

What it says about you

Opinion

A big, soft, well-equipped saloon that undercut everything comparable. You bought on value and were quietly right.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

12 model years on record, 712 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (service brakes), 2007 (seat), 2006 (headlights). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • seat 2006, 2007, 2008 peak 46.4% of that year's complaints
  • sound 2012, 2013 peak 37.8% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2017 1 recall 12 complaints
  2. 2016 1 recall 15 complaints
  3. 2015 1 recall 9 complaints
  4. 2014 1 recall 48 complaints
  5. 2013 service brakes 112 complaints
  6. 2012 2 recalls 74 complaints
  7. 2011 3 recalls 20 complaints
  8. 2010 3 recalls 8 complaints
  9. 2009 5 recalls 26 complaints
  10. 2008 7 recalls 69 complaints
  11. 2007 seat 131 complaints
  12. 2006 headlights 188 complaints

What does a Hyundai Azera say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.