5.5

fairly significant
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
16,184 miles

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2018 Hyundai Sonata body / paint problems

body / paint problem

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2018 Hyundai Sonata Owner Comments

problem #8

Dec 152023

Sonata

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The paint if pealing off in large sections due to a manufacturer defect in the primer. The flakes can fly onto the windshields of other vehicles causing collisions.

- Cleveland , TN, USA

problem #7

Jan 012022

Sonata

  • miles
White paint peeling off vehicle body in large sections

- Philadelphia, PA, USA

problem #6

Oct 122022

Sonata

  • miles
2018 Hyundai Sonata Sport+ with 23K miles that has White Pearl exterior paint. The paint (W8 or WW8) is peeling off from several locations (Hood and Roof). This has been a know issue with this type of paint on Hyundai vehicles but manufacturer is not taking any responsibility that paint or paint job is defective. One can google this issue and thousands of user complaints are there of different forums and messaging boards. Example: https://community.cartalk.com/t/2018-hyundai-sonata-paint-peeling/185473/7 https://www.reddit.com/r/Hyundai/comments/zt5lsk/warranty_extension_for_1718_elantrasonata_white/

- Colonia, NJ, USA

problem #5

Oct 312022

Sonata

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

White paint has started to peel off the body. Vehicle is past warranty (>3 years, >36,000 miles) and Hyundai refused to deal with it. It has been a known problem that their pearl white paint easily peels off the body down to the steel but they refuse to issue a recall for it.

- Yigo, GU, USA

problem #4

Apr 072022

Sonata

  • miles
This car literally has sheets of painting peeling off of it while driving down the interstate blowing onto others cars.

- Lebanon, VA, USA

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problem #3

Jan 032021

Sonata

  • 32,000 miles
I was I a parking and I opened the trunk, after that it was impossible to close it. The trunck latch failed. It has a plastic part that broke. I had to purchase a new one.

- Quebradillas, PR, USA

problem #2

Oct 182020

Sonata

  • 72,470 miles
Driving North on interstate 530 in Arkansas, about 40 miles South of clinton library there was a sudden explosion of glass from the sunroof. The internal visor was open and glass began to pour into my lap, shirt and the other seats in the vehicle. I screamed in fear and pulled over to the side of the road. There were no other vehicles in front of or behind me at the time.

- Benton, AR, USA

problem #1

Nov 062018

Sonata

  • 25,000 miles
The outside antenna completely came off and disappeared... not broken, but literally came loose and blew away down the interstate

- Franklin, IN, USA

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