2013 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #1109554
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FLUID filed September 15, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1109554 (ODI reference 10633261) concerns a 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on September 15, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 1, 2014. The vehicle had 34,800 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:fluid, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HYUNDAI SONATA cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:fluid failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA. WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO STOP WHEN THE BRAKES WERE ENGAGED. THE CONTACT HAD TO USE EXCESSIVE FORCE SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE THE VEHICLE HALTED. THE FAILURE OCCURRED FIVE TIMES. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE BRAKE FLUID WAS CONTAMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED AND THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 34,800.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1109554 |
| ODI Number | 10633261 |
| Date Filed | September 15, 2014 |
| Failure Date | June 1, 2014 |
| VIN | 5NPEB4AC8DH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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