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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Hyundai Accent

Only 6 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 11
With an odometer reading 6
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 83%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 5th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

There are 11 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Hyundai Accent, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 6 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 11,500 miles — —

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2008, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 2012 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1998 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 1999 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2000 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 104k
  6. 2001 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  7. 2002 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 47k
  8. 2003 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  9. 2004 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  10. 2005 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 85k
  11. 2007 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 72k
  12. 2008 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 5k
  13. 2009 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 33k
  14. 2010 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 19k
  15. 2011 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  16. 2012 (this one) 12k
  17. 2013 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 22k
  18. 2014 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 10k
  19. 2015 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 3k
  20. 2016 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem 5k
  21. 2019 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2021 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2022 Hyundai Accent other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 hyundai accent. The contact stated that the vehicle did not come equipped with a spare tire. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue and stated that the vehicle was not equipped with a spare tire for economical reasons. The failure mileage was 5.

5 miles NHTSA complaint 906195 filed 2012-02-21

I purchased a 2012 hyundai accent 5 door 03/02/21012 and discovered after the purchase there was no spare tire just a repair kit. I was not told before the purchase. Who would even think that a spare was not included. This is a safety issue especially if you are on the side of the road in the dark and it's inclement weather . The tire kit instructions are hard to understand. I contacted hyundai and my secretary of state to complain about the safety issue. Hyundai's explanation was it was for better mileage and the dealer told me that hyundai now makes a spare for the 2012 elantra for a price and the spare for the accent is in process,once again for a price. It will be an option . I have also contacted my aaa because if I get a flat they will have to use the kit or tow me,for a price , to the nearest dealer. Better mileage is great but so isn't safety. *tr

52 miles NHTSA complaint 908017 filed 2012-03-04

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 hyundai accent se. The contact stated that while traveling 50 MPH, he drove into a pothole which caused the passenger front tire to blow. The vehicle did not come equipped with a spare tire but rather a tire sealant. The hole was too large for the sealant to be effective, leaving the contact stranded. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified. The failure and current mileages were 1,000.

1,000 miles NHTSA complaint 939477 filed 2012-09-14

Also reported on the 2012 Hyundai Accent

Other engine problem

25 reports median 80k

Other brake problem

24 reports median 31k

Other speed control problem

13 reports median 61k

Other electrical problem

12 reports median 45k

Other steering problem

9 reports median 41k

Fuel pump failure

7 reports median 22k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 11 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 11 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2012 Hyundai Accent?

Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Hyundai Accent?

11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed