2008 HYUNDAI ELANTRA — Complaint #1794921
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT filed February 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1794921 (ODI reference 11452092) concerns a 2008 HYUNDAI ELANTRA and was filed on February 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2022. The vehicle had 85,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front, 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 ELANTRA cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front 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 2008 HYUNDAI ELANTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2008 Hyundai Elantra. The contact stated that after latching the front driverâs side seat belt, the locking mechanism would not immediately unlock when clicking the release button. The cause of the failure was not determined. The local dealer and manufacturer were notified of the failure but no assistance was offered. The failure mileage was 85,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1794921 |
| ODI Number | 11452092 |
| Date Filed | February 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2022 |
| VIN | KMHDU46D08U |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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