2007 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #664987
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:ON-OFF SWITCH ASSEMBLY filed April 9, 2008
NHTSA complaint #664987 (ODI reference 10223804) concerns a 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on April 9, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 15, 2008. The vehicle had 200 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:on-off switch assembly, 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 air bags:on-off switch assembly 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 2007 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2007 HYUNDAI SONATA. PASSENGER AIRBAG LIGHT STAYS ON WHILE MY WIFE IS SITTING IN FRONT PASSENGER SEAT. THIS MEANS THAT THE AIRBAG IS NOT ACTIVATED & IN THE EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT THE AIRBAGS WILL NOT DEPLOY. WE HAVE HAD THE FRONT CUSHION REPLACED IN NOV 2007 BUT THE PROBLEM HAVE RETURNED. THIS IS AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM. WE HAVE PHOTO'S OF THE LIGHT ON & PASSENGER SEAT OCCUPIED. COMPANY SO FAR IS SENDING ME TO THE DEALER BUT UNLESS THE LIGHT IS ON WHILE WE ARE THERE THEY WON'T DO ANYTHING. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 664987 |
| ODI Number | 10223804 |
| Date Filed | April 9, 2008 |
| Failure Date | January 15, 2008 |
| VIN | 5NPET46C87H |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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