2001 Hyundai Accent problems
NHTSA has received 148 complaints about the 2001 Hyundai Accent, and 14% of them involve air bags. Next are transmission (11%) and suspension (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 148 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 14% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 28 and 10
- Injuries and deaths
- 22 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 58,000 miles 50 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 10 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 10 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 5 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 5 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 8 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 7 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 2 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 50 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 58,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 28 complaints mention a crash; 10 complaints mention a fire; 22 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 93% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 25 model years of the Hyundai Accent with enough data (100 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.
My client was seriously injured when the car her husband was driving struck a telephone pole head-on and the airbags failed to deploy. The airbag system had not given any warning that it was not working at any time before the crash.
My family was driving our 2001 hyundai accent in which another vehicle collided with ours except the dash board air bags didn't inflate. Afterwards within two weeks I stopped at the nearest dealership and asked who should I inquire why the air bags didn't work. The vehicle was totaled and I did send an email to the address the dealership provided but have heard nothing. My wife and daughter got banged up but are okay now.
At 35-42 MPH there was a front impact and driver was not wearing seatbelt. Both front seatbelts retracted after impact into door mounts to the point of breaking the side mounts. Information provided by officer william elbert. Please add $ amount of damage to vehicle.
The consumer had to be pulled from the vehicle after it caught fire. The engine light had come on and the brakes were squeaky. The vehicle was not placed in gear. The collision experts concluded that the muffler had overheated and perhaps faulty heat shields had caused an ignition in the interior of the vehicle which had obviously been accelerated when the vehicle's door was opened. (the interior was completely burnt down to the metal seat frames)
Both front seat belt buckles came undone while driving, also, the consumer noticed that they were unable to hear the clicking sound when snapping the latch plate into the buckle. Dealer was notified.