Model years › Hyundai Azera

2007 Hyundai Azera

Complaints about this year name seat far more often than the model's other years — 40% of them, about 11× the usual rate of 3.6%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• seat — 40.5% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the model's other years (4.9×).
• belt — 36.6% of this year's complaints, against 14.3% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: belt, seat belt, passenger seat, illuminated vehicle.
• dash — 19.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: dash, inch, inch crack, off passenger.

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.

Also unusual this year

• driver seat — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
• seat belt — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
• air bag — 28% of complaints, 5× usual

What owners wrote

AFTER THE VEHICLE WAS STARTED, THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT AND TENSIONER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE [VIN] WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEA…

THE CONTACT WAS TRAVELING 20 MPH WHEN THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE DEALER CONFIRMED THAT THE SEAT BELT TENSION SENSOR NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE [VIN] WAS CONTACTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE M…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 09V122000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
• 16V630000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 18V026000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
• 13V113000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
• 08E021000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
• 13V354000 SUSPENSION
• 09V497000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 09V280000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.

Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

Own a 2007 Hyundai Azera? What happened to yours?

Loading comments…

How this was worked out

Every year of the Hyundai Azera 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.

Every year of the Hyundai Azera →