23V651000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:CONTROL UNIT/MODULE
An engine compartment fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.
2012 HYUNDAI ACCENT
2 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 218 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints218
Complaints citing a crash18
Complaints citing a fire18
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 2 of 2
20V393000
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL
An overheated accessory outlet increases the risk of fire.
What owners report most
- 36ENGINE
- 22ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 19UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 19SERVICE BRAKES
- 17AIR BAGS
- 17VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 14SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 10FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 HYUNDAI ACCENTs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.