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2011 Hyundai ELANTRA TOURING Visibility Sun Roof Assembly Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	1106701
Internal NHTSA #	10630650
Manufacurer	Hyundai Motor America
Brand	HYUNDAI
Model	ELANTRA TOURING
Model Year	2011
File date	03/09/14
Component	VISIBILITY:SUN ROOF ASSEMBLY
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	I was driving down the highway at approximately 5 pm on a partly cloudy day that was not particularly hot (~94f) for this part of the country. I had been on the road for about 4 hours when i suddenly heard a loud "boom" similar to a shotgun blast come from the roof of my car. I made my way off the interstate onto the feeder road as quickly as i could. Upon getting out of the car i found that my sunroof had seemingly exploded. About 75% of the glass was gone. Some glass fragments were laying on the sun visor (as i had the sun visor closed at the time), but most of the glass was presumably along the interstate somewhere. The glass broke into thousands of tiny glass fragments. The glass that remained was completely cracked due to the nature of the tempered glass. The pieces of glass along fracture boundary were sticking up in such a way that the glass must have broken in an outward direction. There was no damage to the sun visor. Both of these pieces of evidence along with the fact that i did not see anything just prior to the incident show that the sunroof could not have been shattered by an impact from debris. The debris would have had to have been substantially massive to cause such damage to the glass. It would have certainly damaged the sun visor as well. In addition, the glass could not have flown outward after an inward impact from debris. This incident was caused by either faulty materials used for glass or improper design that did not account for all loads that could be applied to the glass. This incident could have easily caused an accident by startling me as the driver on the interstate. Also, the residual glass could have easily caused an injury to the driver or passengers in the car if the sun visor had not been closed. This is a very dangerous issue.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	57000
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	HOUSTON, TX
VIN pattern	KMHDC8AE8BUXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?	N
Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	0
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
Number of cylinders	4
Drive train type	FWD
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Vehicle speed	75
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2011 Hyundai ELANTRA TOURING Visibility Sun Roof Assembly Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2011 Hyundai ELANTRA TOURING Visibility Sun Roof Assembly Problems, Complaints and Defects

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