2025 HYUNDAI TUCSON — Complaint #2176162
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:HORN filed February 12, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2176162 (ODI reference 11717542) concerns a 2025 HYUNDAI TUCSON and was filed on February 12, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 19, 2026. The vehicle had 8,400 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:horn, 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 TUCSON cohort independently describe similar electrical system:horn 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 2025 HYUNDAI TUCSON shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2025 Hyundai Tucson. The contact stated that the horn was inoperable. While another driver was reversing, the contact attempted to use the horn to alert the driver, but the horn failed to operate as intended. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer, where it was confirmed that the horn was not functioning properly. The dealer informed the contact that the necessary parts to repair the vehicle were on backorder. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 8,400.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2176162 |
| ODI Number | 11717542 |
| Date Filed | February 12, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 19, 2026 |
| VIN | 5NMJACDE8SH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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