2011 HYUNDAI ELANTRA — Complaint #1318182
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed September 16, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1318182 (ODI reference 10907269) concerns a 2011 HYUNDAI ELANTRA and was filed on September 16, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 2, 2016. The vehicle had 103,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:coil springs, 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 ELANTRA cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:coil springs 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 2011 HYUNDAI ELANTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNED A 2011 HYUNDAI ELANTRA. WHILE DRIVING 20 MPH, THE VEHICLE MADE A LOUD BANGING NOISE FROM THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE. THE VEHICLE BECAME DIFFICULT TO STEER. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE COIL SPRING FRACTURED AND WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 15V629000 (SUSPENSION). THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 103,000. UPDATED 10/27/16*LJ *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1318182 |
| ODI Number | 10907269 |
| Date Filed | September 16, 2016 |
| Failure Date | September 2, 2016 |
| VIN | 5NPDH4AE0BH |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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