1. Hyundai Elantra
  2. Problems
  3. 2008
  4. Body

2008 Hyundai Elantra Body Problems

2
Owner complaint records in our dataset

Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.

Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.

Among these 2 stored complaint records:

  • 1 indicate a crash
  • 0 indicate injury
  • 0 indicate fire

Mileage in stored records

BandRecords
100–150k mi1
30–60k mi1

Complaint records

Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.

  • November 27, 2017 · 40,000 miles

    Air Bags · Body · Engine

    Takata recall. Driver lost control of the car and over corrected and hit a tree which pushed her into another tree. The front end of the car was wrecked and the air bags did not deploy. We were never contacted about the recall on the car so we had no knowledge that the air bags were defective.

    Crash reported

    ODI 11052514

  • November 1, 2017 · 130,000 miles

    Body · Suspension

    Recall for undercoating done jan. 2016 (tt1). On 11/1/17, while driving on a town road, the rear right trailing arm fell off causing the car to swerve abruptly off the road due to extreme rust on the sub frame. This also happened with my 2002 santa fe and was covered under the salt belt corrosion class action settlement. Hyundai is aware there is still a problem, but the undercoating recall does not work and this is…

    ODI 11042953