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2017 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT — Complaint #1984635

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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER filed April 18, 2024

NHTSA complaint #1984635 (ODI reference 11583872) concerns a 2017 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT and was filed on April 18, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 18, 2024. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:sensor:occupant classification:front passenger, 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 SANTA FE SPORT cohort independently describe similar air bags:sensor:occupant classification:front passenger 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 2017 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2017 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SPORT
Component
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
State
Illinois

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the air bag warning light illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed a failure with the passenger’s side seat occupancy sensor. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1984635
ODI Number 11583872
Date Filed April 18, 2024
Failure Date April 18, 2024
VIN 5NMZT3LBXHH

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.