Federal complaint record · Hyundai Elantra · model year 2013

2013 Hyundai Elantra

Owners submitted 1,309 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 91th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 15% · group n = 283Steering · 15% · group n = 271Engine · 13% · group n = 236Airbags · 9% · group n = 167Electrical · 8% · group n = 155
1,309
Complaint records on file
45,118
Median mileage at the reported problem · 792 complaints reported mileage
15%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 283
91th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Brakes · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Brakes15%

Brakes reports

Hyundai Elantra · model year 2013

Reports in this group283
Share of classified reports15%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
650 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,309 matched incidents
2014
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
379 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 · 274 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32013 Hyundai Elantra
Steering effort · 218 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32013 Hyundai Elantra
Airbag concerns · 116 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32013 Hyundai Elantra

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

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