2013 Hyundai Accent problems
NHTSA has received 207 complaints about the 2013 Hyundai Accent, and 21% of them involve brakes. Next are engine (16%) and electrical system (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 207 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 21% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 27 and 14
- Injuries and deaths
- 43 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 42,000 miles 113 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 | 37 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 11 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 27 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 10 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 14 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 7 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 113 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 42,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 55,000 miles (10 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 27 complaints mention a crash; 14 complaints mention a fire; 43 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 2013 ranks 2nd most-complained-about out of 25 model years of the Hyundai Accent with enough data (105 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.
I was driving and I tried to stop and couldn’t and someone ran the stop sign and I hit them and totalled my car and I just got off the phone with the investigator and they said it was due to my abs. And I seen the abs light on my dash and when I took it to bridgt breaks they told me it was fine
My wife and I, both over sixty, were driving back from ohio to connecticut on the penn rt 80, it was snowing and the road surface was slippery but drive-able. About five miles before the milesburg, pa exit, the car began to loose power and the windshield and the wipers iced up such that our visibility was impaired. I had to stop on the unplowed shoulder of the highway to clear the ice. It was very dangerous as large speeding trucks and cars were passing close by.
While driving the car it loses electrical power and the vehicle stalls, which causes it to lose lights, gauges, steering, etc. The car will not restart immediately after stalling out, sometimes up to an hour. This is a very dangerous situation and has happened over 8 times now. The local hyundai dealer said it might be the ip junction box or it might be a lose grounding wire and they will not give us a definite answer for a fix.