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2006 Hyundai Azera

Complaints about this year name headlights far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 53× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• headlights — 37.2% of this year's complaints, against 10.1% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: headlights, night, dim, beam.
• seat — 26.6% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the model's other years (3.2×).
• visibility — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (47.9×). Owners wrote it as: visibility, lighting, exterior, exterior lighting.

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

• seat — 27% of complaints, 7× usual
• seat belt — 13% of complaints, 32× usual
• air bag — 23% of complaints, 4× usual

What owners wrote

AIR BAG LIGHT ON...VEHICLE TAKEN TO DEALER AND I WAS TOLD THAT PRETENSIONER PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT FAILED. RECALL COMPLLIED WITH ON PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT 2010. COST TO FIX $573. NOT REPAIRED YET. I HAVE COMPLAINED HYUNDAI OF AMERICA.

THE AIR BAG LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION AND THEY STATED THAT THE SEAT BELT ASSEMBLY, THE POD SYSTEM, AND ECU NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILU…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 18V026000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
• 08E021000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
• 13V354000 SUSPENSION
• 09V497000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 09V280000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
• 10V007000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

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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.

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