2019 HYUNDAI ELANTRA — Complaint #1866892
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NHTSA Complaint about LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:TRUNK LID:LATCH filed January 19, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1866892 (ODI reference 11502693) concerns a 2019 HYUNDAI ELANTRA and was filed on January 19, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 11, 2022. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:latch, 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 latches/locks/linkages:trunk lid:latch 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 2019 HYUNDAI ELANTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Sometimes the car will not start batter is testing good replaced it anyway same for starter and Is Alternator and still happens hyundai dealership said they don't know. Now the car will start to break on its own saying something is there even when in open parking lot by yourself with nothing or any one around. After that started now the trunk will open when driving down the road if you are home and unlock the car the trunk will open 3 times before staying closed and as soon as you pull of up to 3 minutes it will open back up even when doing 70 on the interstate just pops open have took batteries out of key fob and still happens
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1866892 |
| ODI Number | 11502693 |
| Date Filed | January 19, 2023 |
| Failure Date | April 11, 2022 |
| VIN | KMHD84LF2KU |
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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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