2013 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #1819499
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS:BULBS filed June 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1819499 (ODI reference 11469468) concerns a 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on June 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 10, 2022. The vehicle had 167,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:tail lights:bulbs, 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:bulbs 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 while replacing the rear driverâs side taillight bulb and pulling out the socket assembly, the plastic melted onto the socket making it difficult to remove the bulb. The contact removed the light socket and the bulb fractured. The dealer was contacted but offered no assistance. The contact was informed that the VIN was not under recall and that the repair would be an out-of-pocket expense. The manufacturer was not contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 167,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1819499 |
| ODI Number | 11469468 |
| Date Filed | June 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 10, 2022 |
| VIN | 5NPEC4AC7DH |
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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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