2021 HYUNDAI ELANTRA — Complaint #1880878
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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:BASE filed March 17, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1880878 (ODI reference 11512372) concerns a 2021 HYUNDAI ELANTRA and was filed on March 17, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2023. The report was geocoded to Connecticut based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:base, 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 child seat:base 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 2021 HYUNDAI ELANTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a Maxi Cosi Coral XP car seat, Model Number: IC313FNDV, Manufactured: 10/09/2020. The car seat was being used in a 2021 Hyundai Elantra. The contact stated that the seat base failed to separate from the stroller when the release handle was pulled firmly. The contact stated that several attempts were needed to remove the car seat from the stroller. The child was not in the car seat during the failure. The contact later received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 23C002000 (Child Seat), which she related to the failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The car seat was not replaced.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1880878 |
| ODI Number | 11512372 |
| Date Filed | March 17, 2023 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2023 |
| VIN | KMHLP4AG7MU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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