Hyundai Excel: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Hyundai Excel, model years 1986 to 2001. NHTSA has 318 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 14 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 0 | 7 | 31% | |
| 1998 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 9% | |
| 1997 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 9% | |
| 1996 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 0 | 3 | 13% | |
| 1995 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 0 | 5 | 22% | |
| 1994 Hyundai Excel | 2 | 32 | 141% | 257,601 |
| 1993 Hyundai Excel NHTSA page | 1 | 20 | 88% | 257,001 |
| 1992 Hyundai Excel | 1 | 34 | 150% | 257,001 |
| 1991 Hyundai Excel | 1 | 38 | 167% | 257,001 |
| 1990 Hyundai Excel | 2 | 38 | 167% | 259,282 |
| 1989 Hyundai Excel | 4 | 68 | 299% | 1,688,550 |
| 1988 Hyundai Excel | 4 | 43 | 189% | 1,688,550 |
| 1987 Hyundai Excel | 4 | 13 | 57% | 1,739,550 |
| 1986 Hyundai Excel | 5 | 13 | 57% | 1,747,747 |
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
419 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 200.5 | 84 |
| Power Train | 174.2 | 73 |
| Electrical System | 124.1 | 52 |
| Visibility | 102.6 | 43 |
| Seat Belts | 74 | 31 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 45.3 | 19 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 40.6 | 17 |
| Structure | 35.8 | 15 |
| Suspension | 31 | 13 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 23.9 | 10 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Sonata65 campaigns
- Elantra56 campaigns
- Santa FE45 campaigns
- Accent25 campaigns
- Tiburon17 campaigns
- Tucson36 campaigns
- XG3503 campaigns
- Azera11 campaigns
- XG3004 campaigns
- Entourage6 campaigns
- Sonata GLS0 campaigns
- Veracruz6 campaigns
- XG 3500 campaigns
- Genesis10 campaigns
- Genesis Coupe6 campaigns
- Elantra Touring4 campaigns
- Sonata Hybrid13 campaigns
- Palisade16 campaigns
- Santa FE Sport11 campaigns
- Ioniq 515 campaigns
- Veloster10 campaigns
- Santa FE Hybrid9 campaigns
- Ioniq 66 campaigns
- Kona9 campaigns
- Nexo5 campaigns
- Santa Cruz9 campaigns
- Elantra Hybrid6 campaigns
- Kona Electric5 campaigns
- Tucson Hybrid4 campaigns
- Tucson Plug-In Hybrid4 campaigns
- Elantra N5 campaigns
- Equus3 campaigns
- Ioniq Hybrid4 campaigns
- Santa FE Plug-In Hybrid4 campaigns
- Veloster N2 campaigns
- Ioniq Electric3 campaigns
- Sonata Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
- Venue3 campaigns
- Ioniq 93 campaigns
- Kona N2 campaigns
- Palisade Hybrid3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Hyundai Excel: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/hyundai/excel/. 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 AMERICA
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 Excel model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1986 with 5, 1989 with 4, 1988 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Hyundai Excel model year has the most complaints?
- The 1989 model year, with 68 of the 318 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Hyundai Excel name?
- Engine and Engine Cooling: 200.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 174.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 124.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Hyundai Excel?
- 17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.