1997 Hyundai Accent problems
NHTSA has received 82 complaints about the 1997 Hyundai Accent, and 20% of them involve engine. Next are air bags (13%) and electrical system (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 82 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 20% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 9 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 5 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 9 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 5 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1997 ranks 15th most-complained-about out of 25 model years of the Hyundai Accent with enough data (51 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Consumer's son was driving approximately 35MPH when he rear ended a pontiac. The driver's side air bag slowly inflated. The block did not move properly, it was stuck on the left side, allowing the air bag to inflate to the right side of the driver. The driver was thrown into the windshield, the passenger side bag did deploy properly. Also, driver side seat belt did not lock upon impact. Vehicle was totalled.
Vehicle was involved in motor vehicle accident. Driver's side impact. Passenger side air bag deployed first. Driver, my daughter struck the steering wheel and the driver's side air bag then deployed burning both arms of my daughter. No frontal contact at all.
While stopping, was rearended by another vehicle and pushed forward, air bags did not deploy. Driver injured and vehicle was totaled. Consumer states that the front end of the vehicle was completely smashed. *slc
While driving consumer had an accident. Upon impact, air bags did not deploy. Consumer was injured. Also, consumer stated that the guiding arm was very weak. This caused problems with the steering.
Right front coil spring broke hitting rotor cracking the rotor replaced all affected parts at our own expense replaced coil spring,rotor,brake pads. Hyundai says this vehicle not in the recall even though it is registered in the effected area of the recall this could have potentially LED to catastrophic failure if it had not been detected.