1995 Hyundai Sonata problems
Owners have filed 93 complaints with NHTSA about the 1995 Hyundai Sonata. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 17% of complaints. Next are transmission (17%) and brakes (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 93 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 17% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 17 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 19 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: 17 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 19 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 1995 ranks 27th most-complained-about out of 34 model years of the Hyundai Sonata with enough data (67 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.
While driving vehicle on wet road conditions, went to apply the brakes and the brakes would not stop the vehicle. Both air bags deployed and the passenger's side air bag burned the left side of son's face. Vehicle is equipped with ABS.
I was in a front end collision, both cars was doing about 35 MPH, neither one of my airbags ejected. They were supposedly serviced back in june, and I was told that they were fine.
I'm the owner of a 1995 hyundai sonata, 2.0l dohc, automatic. Driving on a icy road in michigan the tranny downshifted by itself from 4th(od) to 1st gear and locked in 1st gear throwing me in a snow bank! If it wasn't for the snow bank to stop the car, I would've ended in front of a incoming semi! The transmission has had harsh shifts/downshifts since I purchased the car, but I never had anticipated locking up while driving.
Speed control issue: the vehicle idle is rough & irregular, stalls without warning, $$$..expensive repairs-same problems. The stallings accounts for several near rear-end collisions. Finally,on nov.8,2004. I press down on the accelerator,the vehicle accelerate from 0 to 40 MPH in a matter of seconds,almost crashed into some parked vehicles. The vehicle transmission shifter was placed in neutral & brakes applied to stop this out-of -control vehicle.