Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1996 Hyundai Elantra

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

3
Open recalls
100
NHTSA complaints
2
Defect investigations
60
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

100 filed
11
Crashes
3
Fires
2
Injuries reported
2
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Power TRAIN:AUTOMATIC Transmission
    15
  • Engine AND Engine COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
    15
  • AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
    10
  • Fuel SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK Assembly
    8
  • Unknown OR Other
    7
  • VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR
    6
  • VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER
    4
  • Electrical SYSTEM:WIRING:FRONT Underhood
    3

Recalls

3 campaigns
00V095002·FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY2000-07-21

VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: PASSENGER VEHICLES. THE EVAPORATIVE EMISSION CONTROL SYSTEMS CAN APPLY EXCESSIVE VACUUM TO THE FUEL TANKS DURING THE CANISTER PURGE CYCLE. IF EXCESSIVE VACUUM IS APPLIED, MINOR FUEL TANK DISTORTION CAN RESULT. A SMALL CRACK COULD DEVELOP ON THE UPPER FUEL TANK SURFACE. THE "CHECK ENGINE" LIGHT WOULD THEN ILLUMINATE AND, IN SOME CASES, THE VEHICLE DRIVER MAY NOTICE A GASOLINE ODOR.

RiskFUEL LEAKAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE COULD RESULT IN A FIRE.

FixDEALERS WILL PRESSURE CHECK THE VEHICLE'S FUEL TANK TO DETERMINE IF IT HAS CRACKED. IF THE FUEL TANK HAS CRACKED, IT WILL BE REPLACED.

00V095001·FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY2000-03-28

VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: PASSENGER VEHICLES. THE EVAPORATIVE EMISSION CONTROL SYSTEMS CAN APPLY EXCESSIVE VACUUM TO THE FUEL TANKS DURING THE CANISTER PURGE CYCLE. IF EXCESSIVE VACUUM IS APPLIED, MINOR FUEL TANK DISTORTION CAN RESULT. A SMALL CRACK COULD DEVELOP ON THE UPPER FUEL TANK SURFACE. THE "CHECK ENGINE" LIGHT WOULD THEN ILLUMINATE AND, IN SOME CASES, THE VEHICLE DRIVER MAY NOTICE A GASOLINE ODOR.

RiskFUEL LEAKAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE COULD RESULT IN A FIRE.

FixDEALERS WILL PRESSURE CHECK THE VEHICLE'S FUEL TANK TO DETERMINE IF IT HAS CRACKED. IF THE FUEL TANK HAS CRACKED, IT WILL BE REPLACED.

97V026000·VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR1997-02-26

THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MOTOR CIRCUIT BREAKER ELECTRICAL CONTACTS WERE CONTAMINATED DURING ASSEMBLY.

RiskTHIS CONTAMINATION INTERFERES WITH THE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT CONTINUITY AND PREVENTS THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MOTOR FROM OPERATING. INOPERATIVE WINDSHIELD WIPERS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO REDUCED VISIBILITY DURING INCLEMENT WEATHER INCREASING THE RISK OF A VEHICLE CRASH.

FixDEALERS WILL REMOVE THE CONTAMINANTS FROM THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MOTOR CIRCUIT BREAKER CONTACTS.

NHTSA investigations

2 actions
SQ00003·FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY2000-02-02

FUEL CAP REPLACEMENT CAMPAIGN 36

Led to recall00V095001

PE97002·VISIBILITY1997-01-17 → 1997-02-27

WINDSHIELD WIPER FAILURE

Led to recall97V026000

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