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2016 Hyundai Sonata body & structure problems

31 complaints about body & structure have been filed for the 2016 Hyundai Sonata, which is 3% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
31 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
55,000 miles 13 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When body & structure problems show up

Body & structure complaints by mileage, 2016 Hyundai Sonata Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 55,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 2 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 2 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 4 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 1 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 0 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 1 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 55,000 miles
Based on 13 complaints that include mileage. 54% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles2
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles2
60k to 80k miles4
80k to 100k miles1
100k to 120k miles0
120k to 140k miles1
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 13 body & structure complaints that report mileage, the median is about 55,000 miles, and 54% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

On february 19 2019 I was driving a car rental from hertz driving on the freeway in southern ca driving only 25 MPH I crashed trying to avoid crashing into car in front of me kept putting on my breaks and the car would not stopped the breaks malfunction I tried to changing lane I still crashed I was going 25 MPH the car was totaled bumper was plastic or fiber glass the air bag "exploded" not deployed.

Reported at 25 miles, February 2016 CrashInjury

Returned home from travel to find antenna cover was missing. Cover was attached prior to this drive. Cover likely flew off while driving. Was unable to locate. Roughly 15 miles were driven during this trip.

Reported at 67,000 miles, February 2021

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