2016 Hyundai Accent
This year drew an ordinary 192 complaints for a Hyundai Accent — the model's median is 88. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.3% of them mention randomly, against 7.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Hyundai Accent, which began in 2012 and ran to 2017. 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 | 192 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 88 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 30.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- randomly — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.8% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: randomly, investigate, off randomly, codes.
- random — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (5×). Owners wrote it as: random, reset, malfunctioning, stalling.
- phone — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (4.8×). Owners wrote it as: phone, ground.
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
Dashboard light for passenger side airbag goes on/off randomly. Took to Coastal Hyundai 4/8/18 they verified code but found no problem. They just cleared the code. 7/15/21 same problem. Took to Wallace Hyundai in Stuart Fl. Was told passenger seat needs to be…
RANDOMLY THE INSTRUMENT PANEL WILL MALFUNCTION. THE ABS, AIRBAG, AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHTS ILLUMINATE, THE SPEEDOMETER WITH DROP TO ZERO, AND THE FUEL GAUGE INDICATOR FLUCTUATES WILDLY. THIS CAN OCCUR WHILE PARKED OR WHILE DRIVING. IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING RANDOMLY…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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