2013 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #1558560
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558560 (ODI reference 11196824) concerns a 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 14, 2019. The vehicle had 14,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 exterior lighting 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
PROBLEM WITH MY HYUNDAI SONATA 2013 GLS TAILLIGHTS/BRAKE LIGHTS ARE NOT TURNING OFF. THE CAR IS OFF, KEY OUT OF THE IGNITION, LIGHTS SWITCHED OFF AND FOOT NOT ON THE BRAKE AND LIGHTS ARE REMAINING ON. THEY STAY ON THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND DAY. THE WORST TIME IS WHILE DRIVING , THEY REMAIN ON AS IF I'M DRIVING WITH MY FOOT ON THE BRAKE. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. I AM LEFT TO FIGURE IT OUT ON MY OWN AS THERE IS NO RECALLS AND I REFUSE TO PAY THE DEALERSHIP FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD CLEARLY BE A RECALL. WITH HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE REPORTING THIS ISSUE WITH SONATAS FROM MODULES DATING BACK THAT I CAN TELL FROM 2007 TO CURRENT. I REFUSE TO GET THIS CAR AGAI AND AS SOON AS I CAN SALE IT CONSIDER IT SOLD!
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558560 |
| ODI Number | 11196824 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 14, 2019 |
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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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