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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Accent

What it says about you

Opinion

Cheap, small, and covered by a warranty that outlasted your doubts. It did exactly what it promised.

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

18 model years on record, 1,829 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (tried). 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.

  • warranty 2008, 2013 peak 20.8% of that year's complaints
  • him 2008, 2013 peak 9.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2022 2 recalls 16 complaints
  2. 2021 4 recalls 16 complaints
  3. 2020 4 recalls 12 complaints
  4. 2019 1 recall 29 complaints
  5. 2018 1 recall 19 complaints
  6. 2017 0 recalls 129 complaints
  7. 2016 0 recalls 192 complaints
  8. 2015 2 recalls 135 complaints
  9. 2014 1 recall 158 complaints
  10. 2013 tried 275 complaints
  11. 2012 2 recalls 153 complaints
  12. 2011 1 recall 38 complaints
  13. 2010 1 recall 174 complaints
  14. 2009 2 recalls 202 complaints
  15. 2008 1 recall 101 complaints
  16. 2007 3 recalls 88 complaints
  17. 2006 3 recalls 43 complaints
  18. 2005 1 recall 49 complaints

What does a Hyundai Accent 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.