2008 Hyundai Azera
This year drew an ordinary 69 complaints for a Hyundai Azera — the model's median is 26. What they were about is the unusual part: 46.4% of them mention seat, against 8.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 69 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 46.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the model's other years (5.6×).
- drivers — 14.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (10.7×). Owners wrote it as: drivers, rest, seat moves, drivers side.
- driving approximately — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: driving approximately, approximately mph, azera driving, recurred vehicle.
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
POWER DRIVERS SEAT MOVES ON ITS OWN. IT MOVES FORWARD WITH THE BACK SEAT REST PUSHING ME AND ACTUALLY PINNING ME INTO THE STEERING WHEEL THIS OCCURS BOTH WHILE PARKED WITH THE ENGINE IN THE OFF OR RUNNING, AND IN WHILE THE VEHICLE IS BEING DRIVEN AT ANY SPEED.…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH ON NORMAL ROAD CONDITIONS, THE FRONT DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT BACK MOVED FORWARD FORCEFULLY WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. THE UNINTENDED FAILURE OCCURRED INTERMITTENTLY AND WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTY STEERING THE VEH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 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.
- 10V007000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
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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