Federal complaint record · Hyundai Elantra · model year 2010

2010 Hyundai Elantra

Owners submitted 378 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 50th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 39% · group n = 195Electrical · 10% · group n = 50Airbags · 9% · group n = 46Brakes · 8% · group n = 38Powertrain · 6% · group n = 32
378
Complaint records on file
63,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 273 complaints reported mileage
39%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 195
50th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 35 model years

Steering · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Steering39%

Steering reports

Hyundai Elantra · model year 2010

Reports in this group195
Share of classified reports39%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
247 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
378 matched incidents
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
431 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
Steering effort · 161 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32010 Hyundai Elantra
Brake performance · 42 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32010 Hyundai Elantra
Airbag concerns · 31 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32010 Hyundai Elantra

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

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