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Other visibility problem on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata

1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 6 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 0 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 6
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $150–$1,400
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 17th

When other visibility problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other visibility problem on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $150–$1,400 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 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 300 miles, and latest on the 2018 at 125,000 miles.

By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 176; the 2000 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

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. 1997 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 64k
  2. 1998 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 43k
  3. 1999 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 77k
  4. 2000 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2001 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 58k
  6. 2002 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 79k
  7. 2003 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 56
  8. 2004 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 115k
  9. 2005 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 4k
  10. 2006 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 64k
  11. 2007 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 60k
  12. 2008 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 57k
  13. 2009 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 54k
  14. 2010 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 71
  15. 2011 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 28k
  16. 2012 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 290
  17. 2013 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 6k
  18. 2014 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 26k
  19. 2015 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 44k
  20. 2016 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 44k
  21. 2017 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 25k
  22. 2018 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 125k
  23. 2020 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem 1k
  24. 2021 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2022 Hyundai Sonata other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2023 Hyundai Sonata other visibility 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

Also reported on the 2000 Hyundai Sonata

Other body or interior problem

42 reports median 105k

Other suspension problem

30 reports median 115k

Other electrical problem

21 reports median 67k

Rust or structural corrosion

18 reports median 120k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 6 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 6 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.

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