Recall Register

Hyundai Accent: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 25 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Accent, model years 1991 to 2022. NHTSA has 819 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 28 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19910
  2. 19930
  3. 19955
  4. 19964
  5. 19972
  6. 19981
  7. 19991
  8. 20004
  9. 20012
  10. 20021
  11. 20030
  12. 20040
  13. 20051
  14. 20063
  15. 20073
  16. 20081
  17. 20092
  18. 20101
  19. 20111
  20. 20122
  21. 20131
  22. 20141
  23. 20152
  24. 20181
  25. 20191
  26. 20204
  27. 20214
  28. 20222
Hyundai Accent: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2022 Hyundai Accent200%230,235
2021 Hyundai Accent400%230,665
2020 Hyundai Accent400%584,985
2019 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page100%348,158
2018 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page100%348,158
2015 Hyundai Accent200%1,652,058
2014 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page100%1,649,478
2013 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page100%1,649,478
2012 Hyundai Accent200%1,921,604
2011 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page100%99,500
2010 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page113%99,500
2009 Hyundai Accent2414%1,811,836
2008 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page11862%1,712,336
2007 Hyundai Accent31965%2,247,980
2006 Hyundai Accent31655%2,247,980
2005 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page11758%3,011
2004 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page02482%
2003 Hyundai Accent02999%
2002 Hyundai Accent1106362%67,565
2001 Hyundai Accent296328%116,936
2000 Hyundai Accent487297%133,600
1999 Hyundai Accent159202%11,530
1998 Hyundai Accent146157%66,086
1997 Hyundai Accent254185%139,932
1996 Hyundai Accent4100342%209,830
1995 Hyundai Accent5140479%141,809
1993 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page013%
1991 Hyundai Accent NHTSA page027%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

1,075 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Hyundai Accent: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags169.3182
Power Train156.3168
Suspension101.4109
Engine and Engine Cooling89.396
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6671
Electrical System63.368
Visibility61.466
Fuel System, Gasoline41.945
Vehicle Speed Control36.339
Structure35.338

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Hyundai Accent, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Hyundai Accent, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 107 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Hyundai: all 42 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Hyundai Accent: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/accent/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Hyundai Accent model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 5, 2021 with 4, 2020 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Hyundai Accent model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 140 of the 819 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Accent name?
Air Bags: 169.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 156.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 101.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Accent?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.