2005 Hyundai Accent problems
NHTSA has received 76 complaints about the 2005 Hyundai Accent, and 20% of them involve lighting. Next are drivetrain & axles (16%) and brakes (14%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 76 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Lighting 20% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 15 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 8 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 66,000 miles 66 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 | 12 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 10 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 9 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 16 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 4 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 8 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 3 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 66 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 66,000 miles. For lighting specifically, the median reported mileage is about 56,000 miles (14 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 15 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 8 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 90% 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 2005 ranks 24th most-complained-about out of 25 model years of the Hyundai Accent with enough data (21 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
On january 17th my daughter was involved in an accident on interstate 5. She was driving her 2005 hyundai 4 door accent in the rain when a ford explorer merging onto the highway spun out in circles colliding first with another car then hit the accent approximately over the front lft. Headlight. The top of left front wheel was pushed inward, the grill and hood were pushed into windshield, windshield broken, front left roof support, center dash pushed in and parts of dash broken in glove box area,rear seats squished…
Dt*: the contact stated while passing another vehicle at 70 MPH the front driver's side tire bounced, causing the vehicle to go off the roadway and hit a gravel. The vehicle then hit an embankment head on and flipped three times , and the frontal airbags did not deploy. The driver was wearing a seat belt and sustained injuries. A police report was filed at the scene, and pictures were available. The vehicle was towed to an independent repair shop and was awaiting inspection.
I was traveling on a south outer road where the speed limit was 35 miles per hr. I drive a hyundai accent 2005 and this 1995 dodge ram pickup failed to make a turn on the roadway and came in direct path of my car. But the impact was in the middle of my car toward the passenger side in which the impact dented my license plate in half and my air bag did not deploy at the impact .
In september 2009 (exact day unknown), the brake light switch on my 2005 hyundai accent began intermittently failing. As a result, I was unable to shift the vehicle out of park approximately once out of every three times I started the vehicle, but was able to remedy the issue by depressing the brake pedal with an exaggerated degree of force within 1-5 attempts. On november 25, the switch ultimately failed. As a result, the vehicle would not shift out of park without employing the shift lock override.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 hyundai accent. The contact stated that while inspecting the vehicle he noticed that there was an oil leak due to corrosion of the oil pan. Also, the strut tower and the air conditioning hose was corroded. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who did not offer any assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 106,000.