2013 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #1788808
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS filed January 18, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1788808 (ODI reference 11447830) concerns a 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on January 18, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 1, 2019. The vehicle had 135,000 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:tail lights, 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 exterior lighting:tail lights 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
The contact owns a 2013 Hyundai Sonata. The contact stated that the low and high beam headlights failed to illuminate and was replaced on several occasions. Additionally, the driverâs and passengerâs side taillights were inoperable. The local dealer and manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 135,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1788808 |
| ODI Number | 11447830 |
| Date Filed | January 18, 2022 |
| Failure Date | September 1, 2019 |
| VIN | 5NPEB4AC0DH |
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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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