2008 Hyundai Azera problems
Owners have filed 101 complaints with NHTSA about the 2008 Hyundai Azera. Seats is the most reported problem area, at 24% of complaints. Next are brakes (17%) and air bags (16%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 101 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Seats 24% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 10 and 7
- Injuries and deaths
- 10 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 64,000 miles 85 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 | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 18 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 13 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 16 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 10 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 9 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 4 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 85 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 64,000 miles. For seats specifically, the median reported mileage is about 50,000 miles (23 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 10 complaints mention a crash; 7 complaints mention a fire; 10 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 81% 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 2008 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 8 model years of the Hyundai Azera with enough data (39 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 6 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 mother pulled in my driveway to park. The car made a weird sound and then accelerated at a quick speed. She pressed on the brakes and had skid marks to prove it, but the car would not stop. She ran into the next door neighbor's brick house. This happened on an easter sunday. My sister was in the front seat. My mother had abrasions from the seat belt and severe bruises to the chest from the air bag. My sister had bruising to her ribs and her leg was cut, which resulted in 5 stitches.
While driving on a 2 lane country road with no shoulder to pull over on my speed dropped from 50 MPH to about 10MPH. There was no response when I pressed the gas pedal. I had to have my car towed some 43 miles to the hyundai dealer. The problem turned out to be that the throttle position sensor had failed. This failure, had it ocurred on a heavily traveled highway, could have resulted in following vehicles rearending my vehicle because of the sudden reduction in speed.
While driving, suddenly ABS indicator, ESC off indicator and "ABS system failure" message on dashboard showed up and had to make emergency stop since all of these scared me. Also scared me that vehicle's ABS and stability control stop working. - after started driving slowly - some noise from front wheels were coming. Went to dealer and told us that issue with "wheel speed sensor" and "tone wheel" damaged..