AutoUtility currently tracks 29 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2019 Hyundai Accent. Engine & Cooling issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 20 complaints (69% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 1 cites a fire, 1 reports one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 29 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Engine & Cooling (20 reports • 69% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Air Bags & Restraints (4), Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (2)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 1 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
29
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
1
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2019 Hyundai Accent

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 69% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

20 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
🔥 1 fire report 🩹 1 injury report entry
#2 Problem Area 13.8% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 6.9% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
🩹 1 injury report entry
#4 Problem Area 6.9% of complaints

Electrical System

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
🩹 1 injury report entry
#5 Problem Area 6.9% of complaints

Suspension

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Symptoms Mentioned in NHTSA Owner Reports for 2019 Hyundai Accent

Specific mechanical, electrical, and driver-assist defect symptoms identified via deterministic narrative analysis

AutoUtility uses deterministic phrase matching to identify recurring symptom descriptions within consumer-submitted NHTSA complaint narratives.

Powertrain & Transmission 13.8% of complaints

Loss of Motive Power While Driving

4 complaint narratives describe this symptom
Symptom Identification Method: A complaint may describe more than one symptom, so percentages may sum to more than 100%. Symptom identification reflects text contained in consumer-submitted complaint records and does not establish a confirmed mechanical diagnosis.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2019 Hyundai Accent

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11715194
Filed: 02/03/2026

"Engine burning oil extremely fast after oil change"

Incident Date: 02/02/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE
Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11712957
Filed: 01/23/2026

"cylinder 3 failure while driving, while merging onto highway traffic vehicle was suddenly unable to to accelerate as there was a sudden loss of power and improper shifting of gears. Engine light came on as well. Car was taken to dealer for excessive burning of oil while under warranty before this..."

Incident Date: 12/16/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE
Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11703850
Filed: 12/08/2025

"Driver: My [XXX] daughter (I was not in the vehicle), I am the owner. Mileage at incident: Approximately 89,000 miles (see Tire Discounters record, page 13). 2019 Hyundai Docs What happened: While driving on the highway, the vehicle suddenly lost power and stalled, requiring my daughter to pull..."

Incident Date: 10/23/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11684561
1 Injury Entry Filed: 09/02/2025

"I am reporting a severe and hazardous failure involving my 2019 Hyundai Accent. On August 8, 2025, between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., while driving on Mopac (Loop 1), a heavily traveled highway in Austin, Texas, the vehicle abruptly experienced an overheating issue without any prior warning. The..."

Incident Date: 08/08/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,ENGINE
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11661694
Filed: 05/18/2025

"About 8 months to a year ago my car started losing power and started using a lot of oil without an oil leak. Now it has a loud knocking noise in the engine. I have taken it to a mechanic and they said they some vehicles have recalls."

Incident Date: 09/13/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,ENGINE
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Hyundai Accent

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2022)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Hyundai Accent 69 7 2 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Hyundai Accent 100 7 0 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Hyundai Accent 68 9 0 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Hyundai Accent 19 0 1 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Hyundai Accent Current Page 29 1 1 Current
2020 Hyundai Accent 12 2 4 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Hyundai Accent 16 0 4 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Hyundai Accent 16 2 2 View 2022 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2019 Hyundai Accent

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 13 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 14 0 1 0 0
Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS 3 0 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 2 0 0 0 0
AIR BAGS,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,ENGINE 1 0 0 1 0
Engine & Cooling NHTSA category: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 1 0 0 0 0
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
ENGINE,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Fuel & Propulsion System NHTSA category: FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Doors, Latches & Locks NHTSA category: LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES 1 0 0 0 0
Suspension NHTSA category: SUSPENSION 1 0 0 0 0
SUSPENSION,STRUCTURE,WHEELS 1 1 0 0 0
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (29). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.