2006 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #814180
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER filed September 14, 2010
NHTSA complaint #814180 (ODI reference 10355580) concerns a 2006 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on September 14, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 11, 2009. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:recliner, 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 seats:front assembly:recliner 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 2006 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 HYUNDAI SONATA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE PASSENGER AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED WHILE THE PASSENGER SEAT WAS OCCUPIED. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER FOR REPAIRS UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 08V161000- AIR BAGS. THE DEALER REFUSED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE STATING THAT HER VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL DESPITE THAT THE CONTACT RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE MANUFACTURER IN REGARDS TO THE RECALL. THE SUN VISOR LABELS ALSO BEGAN PEELING AND THE CONTACT INQUIRED WITH THE DEALER IN REGARDS TO NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 06V234000 (EQUIPMENT: OTHER LABELS) AND WAS INFORMED BY THE DEALER THAT THAT THE REPAIR WAS PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED. THE DEALER REFUSED ANY ADDITIONAL REPAIRS. IN ADDITION, THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 05V377000 (SEATS: FRONT ASSEMBLY: RECLINER) AND THE DEALER REFUSED REPAIRS UNDER THE RECALL, STATING THAT THE WORK HAD ALREADY BEEN PERFORMED ON THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT STATED
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 814180 |
| ODI Number | 10355580 |
| Date Filed | September 14, 2010 |
| Failure Date | April 11, 2009 |
| VIN | KMHEU46C16A |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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