1997 Hyundai Excel

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Visibility › Sun/Moon Roof Assembly	1		0	0	0
Air Bags › Frontal	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Visibility › Sun/Moon Roof Assembly

Filed May 8, 1999MT

SUN ROOF LEAKED AND WAS REPAIRED UNSUCCESSFULLY 3 TIMES BY MISSOULA HYUNDAI.DEALER FINALLY TOOK SUN ROOF OFF AND REPLACED SEAL. WHILE DRIVING ON FREEWAY THE ROOF CAME COMPLETELY OFF AND FLEW OFF. FORTUNATELY IT DIDN'T HIT ANOTHER CAR!! DEALERSHIP REFUSES TO FIX IT BECAUSE THE WARRANTY RAN OUT BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME FROM VACATION(THIS HAPPENED WHILE WE DRIVING TO CA FROM MT). HYUNDAI WON'T FIX IT BECAUSE THEY SAY IT IS THE DEALERS PROBLEM! HELP!!!! TRIED TO GET HELP THROUGH CONSUMER AFFAIRS, BUT DIDN'T GET ANY! *AK

Air Bags › Frontal

Filed Aug 20, 1998VA

WHILE DRIVING THROUGH A LARGE PUDDLE IN THE ROAD WAY, THE AIRBAG WARNING LIGHT FLICKERED AND STAYED ON.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1991

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2001	7	0	0	0	Routine
1998	2	0	0	0	Routine
1997 — this page	2	0	0	0	Routine
1996	3	0	0	2	Fatalities reported
1995	5	0	0	0	Routine
1994	33	2	2	0	Routine
1993	20	1	1	0	Routine
1992	34	1	0	0	Routine
1991	38	1	3	0	Routine
1990	38	2	4	0	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.