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2008 HYUNDAI SONATA — Complaint #892614

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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE filed November 28, 2011

NHTSA complaint #892614 (ODI reference 10437619) concerns a 2008 HYUNDAI SONATA and was filed on November 28, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 31, 2011. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:frontal:sensor/control module, 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:frontal:sensor/control module 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 2008 HYUNDAI SONATA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2008 HYUNDAI SONATA
Component
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE
State
Georgia

Complaint Description

AIRBAG LIGHT INDICATOR ON PASSENGER SEAT WHEN OCCUPIED NOT REGISTERING PERSON IN SEAT IF PASSENGER NOT IN SEAT. SEAT BELT LIGHT INDICATES FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT WITH NO PASSENGER IN SEAT, NOT SAFETY @ ALL SOMEONE COULD GET INJURED, I DON'T THINK I NEED TO PAY FOR IT TO BE FIXED, MANUFACTURER ISSUE, SAME PROBLEM ON WSB NEWS WITH ANOTHER PERSON, NEEDS ATTENTION SOON. AIR BAG FRONTAL SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE. I CONTACTED ALL THAT SHOULD BE CONCERN BUT DO NOT CARE WANTS MY MONEY AND CAR PAYMENT COMPANY NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. *KB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 892614
ODI Number 10437619
Date Filed November 28, 2011
Failure Date October 31, 2011
VIN 5NPET46F28H

Similar AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE Complaints for 2008 HYUNDAI SONATA

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