2004 Hyundai Elantra defect investigations
Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2004 Hyundai Elantra. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.
- POST-CRASH FUEL TANK LEAKPreliminary Evaluation PE04041 · opened Apr 16, 2004 · closed Jul 13, 2004 · led to recall 04V370000
Pe04-041 was opened to investigate a fuel leak incident that occurred during an insurance institute for highway safety (iihs) frontal crash offset test on the subject vehicle.this investigation revealed that the vapor tube hose clamp ear was mispositioned and facing toward the fuel tank, which enabled the vapor tube ho…