Federal complaint record · Hyundai Elantra · model year 2006

2006 Hyundai Elantra

Owners submitted 155 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 8th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2004 to 2008 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 29% · group n = 60Lighting · 19% · group n = 39Brakes · 15% · group n = 32Electrical · 8% · group n = 16Speed control · 5% · group n = 11
155
Complaint records on file
67,900
Median mileage at the reported problem · 126 complaints reported mileage
29%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 60
8th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 30 model years

Airbags · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags29%

Airbags reports

Hyundai Elantra · model year 2006

Reports in this group60
Share of classified reports29%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2005
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
137 matched incidents
This car
2006
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
155 matched incidents
2007
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
266 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 56 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32006 Hyundai Elantra
Airbag concerns · 43 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32006 Hyundai Elantra
Stalling or shutdown · 8 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32006 Hyundai Elantra

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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