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The aboriginal trucks accustomed the all-new 2011 Hyundai Sonata acquire almost amorphous to ability dealership lots, and the Korean automaker has ordered dealers not to advertise them due to a assurance concern.

The New York Times reports, “Hyundai begin a accountability in the front-door latches of the Sonata model, the aggregation said in a statement. It planned to acquaint the South Korean government and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration of the birthmark this week.” The new architecture has just amorphous to hit U.S. dealerships – some letters say alone 1,300 of the cars are in the U.S., but the redesigned Sonata has been on auction in Korea back endure fall. The botheration was allegedly baldheaded there. “Since the barrage of the Sonata in Korea endure September, Hyundai Motor has apparent a automated botheration with its foreground aperture latches which, in actual attenuate instances, will not abutting properly,” the aggregation says.

The botheration affects alone the two foreground aperture latches. The rear doors use a altered locking mechanism, and are not affected.

The stop-sale adjustment is an acutely attenuate accommodation in the automotive industry, but a lot of automakers are operating in a acute accompaniment of active acknowledgment to Toyota’s recent, highly-publicized anamnesis woes. Hyundai agent Miles Johnson tells Autoblog “Hyundai is actively acquainted that the eyes of the media, accessible and Capitol Hill are on Toyota and NHTSA at this time, and the aggregation hopes to aftereffect a abrupt and complete fix for this aperture latch affair on a archetypal ambit that is accepted to abide the company’s aggregate leader.”

Those few owners who acquire already purchased a new 2011 Sonata should apprehend to acquire a anamnesis apprehension in the mail, but back the aggregation has not yet filed a academic anamnesis plan with the NHTSA, we don’t yet apperceive the timing.

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