2012 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #1747846
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:CONNECTORS/PLUGS/RECEPTACLES filed May 17, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1747846 (ODI reference 11417537) concerns a 2012 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on May 17, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 12, 2021. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:wiring:connectors/plugs/receptacles, 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 electrical system:wiring:connectors/plugs/receptacles 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 2012 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
When I learned my right brake light was out and upon further investigating I found that the socket for brake bulb was melted as well. I now need to replace the socket and wiring so the bulb will hopefully work properly. When I took my car in for an oil change recently, I was told the brake socket had melted the brake light assembly. Also which will now need to be replaced as well (Quoted $150 plus labor). Next thing is a little hard to explain, but short time later I was driving on freeway and my car will suddenly stop accelerating and start slowing down. Then will kick back up again like nothing happened, car didn't lose power during this. All power was sill on radio, lights ect.. The first time this happened it was so quick I didn't know what to think. Not long after that my daughter was driving this time and it did it again repeatedly will stops accelerating (on off on off on off). To the point we were slowing down quite a bit and had to put the flashers on, as sud
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1747846 |
| ODI Number | 11417537 |
| Date Filed | May 17, 2021 |
| Failure Date | April 12, 2021 |
| VIN | 5NPEC4AB5CH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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