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2011 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #2158659

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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY filed December 18, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2158659 (ODI reference 11705920) concerns a 2011 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on December 18, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 18, 2025. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body, 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 structure:body 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 2011 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 HYUNDAI SONATA
Component
STRUCTURE:BODY
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

The Vehicle: "I have a 2011–2014 Hyundai Sonata with massive underbody rust." The Failed Fix: "Service Campaign 946 was completed on this car in 2017, but it did not work. The rust is now worse." The Safety Risk: "The structural metal is so rusty that I am afraid it will snap while I am driving. This makes the car unsafe." Hyundai is refusing to fix it because the car has a 'branded' (abandoned) title, even though the structural safety issue is still there."

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2158659
ODI Number 11705920
Date Filed December 18, 2025
Failure Date December 18, 2025
VIN 5npec4ac7bh

Similar STRUCTURE:BODY Complaints for 2011 HYUNDAI SONATA

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