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2003 Hyundai Tiburon seat belts problems

26 complaints about seat belts have been filed for the 2003 Hyundai Tiburon, which is 6% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
26 6% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
68,000 miles 23 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 1
Injuries and deaths
4 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When seat belts problems show up

Seat belts complaints by mileage, 2003 Hyundai Tiburon Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 68,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 3 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 0 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 0 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 13 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 6 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 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: 68,000 miles
Based on 23 complaints that include mileage. 13% 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 miles3
20k to 40k miles0
40k to 60k miles0
60k to 80k miles13
80k to 100k miles6
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 23 seat belts complaints that report mileage, the median is about 68,000 miles, and 13% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash, 1 fire, 4 injuries.

What owners wrote

Consumer stated that while driving at 45 MPH an accident occurred while trying to avoid a collision with a stalled vehicle in the highway. While avoiding the stalled vehicle consumer rolled into a ditch and rolled over several times. Consumer's seatbelt came undone, and the air bag did not deploy. After the accident something under the hood started smoking, and within ten minutes the entire car was consumed by the fire.

Reported at 1,080 miles, June 2003 CrashFireInjury

My air bag light has currently been on for almost a year now at first if I wiggled the seat belt latch it would go off but now it stays on. When I contact the dealership they say that my car is not affected by the seatbelt recall. They want to charge me all this money for something that should be covered by the recall.

Reported at 60,000 miles, August 2007

Other problems reported for the 2003 Hyundai Tiburon

Seat belts problems in other years

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