2001 HYUNDAI TIBURON — Complaint #844466
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:WEBBING filed February 28, 2011
NHTSA complaint #844466 (ODI reference 10384722) concerns a 2001 HYUNDAI TIBURON and was filed on February 28, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2010. The vehicle had 74,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:webbing, 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 TIBURON cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:webbing 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 2001 HYUNDAI TIBURON shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 HYUNDAI TIBURON. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE DRIVERS AND PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELTS HAVE MALFUNCTIONED SINCE SHE WAS UNABLE TO RETRACT THEM. IT TOOK HER APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE ATTEMPTS BEFORE SHE COULD FULLY EXTEND THE SEAT BELTS IN ORDER TO SECURELY CLOSE THE LATCH. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INSPECTED BY A DEALER NOR WAS THE VEHICLE REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 74,000. UPDATED 3/21/11 *CN THE CONSUMER DISCOVERED A RECALL WAS ISSUED FOR THE EXACT PROBLEM SHE EXPERIENCED. HOWEVER, HER VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. UPDATED 06/03/11
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 844466 |
| ODI Number | 10384722 |
| Date Filed | February 28, 2011 |
| Failure Date | April 1, 2010 |
| VIN | KMHJG35F51U |
Similar SEAT BELTS:FRONT:WEBBING Complaints for 2001 HYUNDAI TIBURON
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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