Federal complaint record · Hyundai Elantra · model year 2005

2005 Hyundai Elantra

Owners submitted 137 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 5th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2003 to 2007 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 41% · group n = 74Speed control · 8% · group n = 14Brakes · 6% · group n = 11Electrical · 6% · group n = 10Engine · 6% · group n = 10
137
Complaint records on file
50,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 107 complaints reported mileage
41%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 74
5th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 30 model years

Airbags · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags41%

Airbags reports

Hyundai Elantra · model year 2005

Reports in this group74
Share of classified reports41%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2004
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
182 matched incidents
This car
2005
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
137 matched incidents
2006
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
155 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 61 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32005 Hyundai Elantra
Brake performance · 21 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32005 Hyundai Elantra
Fire or smoke · 8 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32005 Hyundai Elantra

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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