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2014 HYUNDAI ACCENT — Complaint #1615962

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NHTSA Complaint about LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TRUNK LID:LOCK filed October 28, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1615962 (ODI reference 11270792) concerns a 2014 HYUNDAI ACCENT and was filed on October 28, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 28, 2019. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:lock, 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 ACCENT cohort independently describe similar latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:lock 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 2014 HYUNDAI ACCENT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2014 HYUNDAI ACCENT
Component
LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TRUNK LID:LOCK
State
New York

Complaint Description

2014 HYUNDAI ACCENT GS. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARD TO SAFETY ISSUE, VEHICLE IS NOT EQUIPPED WITH AN INTERNAL SAFETY TRUNK RELEASE. *AS *JS THE CONSUMER TRANSFERRED OWNERSHIP OF THE VEHICLE TO A FAMILY FRIEND. *JS

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1615962
ODI Number 11270792
Date Filed October 28, 2019
Failure Date October 28, 2019
VIN KMHCT5AE5EU

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