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2015 HYUNDAI ELANTRA — Complaint #1558151

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed April 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558151 (ODI reference 11196535) concerns a 2015 HYUNDAI ELANTRA and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2019. The vehicle had 31,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maine based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 service brakes 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 2015 HYUNDAI ELANTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2015 HYUNDAI ELANTRA
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
Crash
Yes
State
Maine
Mileage
31,000 mi

Complaint Description

VEHICLE WAS BROUGHT TO A STOP WITH FOOT STILL DEPRESSING BRAKE PEDDLE. BRAKES RELEASED AND CAR SURGED FORWARD HITTING THE VEHICLE IN FRONT. THE VEHICLE WAS COMPLETELY STOPPED BEFORE LUNGING FORWARD ON SOUTHBOUD EXIT 185 OF I95 IN BANGOR MAINE04401

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558151
ODI Number 11196535
Date Filed April 15, 2019
Failure Date April 1, 2019
VIN 5NPDH4AE3FH

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.