Recall · 22V354000
Hyundai Motor America recalled 3 models over seat belts
230,233
Vehicles covered
3
Models
7
Model years
May 19, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Accent, 2021-2022 Elantra, and 2021-2022 Elantra HEV vehicles. In the event of a crash, the front driver-side and/or passenger-side seat belt pretensioners may explode upon deployment.
- What it can cause
- An exploding seat belt pretensioner can project metal fragments into the vehicle, strike vehicle occupants, and result in injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will secure the seat belt pretensioner(s) with a cap, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 28, 2022. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 229. This recall expands and replaces NHTSA recall numbers 21V-796, 22V-069, 22V-218, and 22V-123 for Accent, Elantra, and Elantra HEV vehicles. All Accent, Elantra, and Elantra HEV vehicles already repaired under the previous recalls will need to have the new remedy completed.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 230,233 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 13 times before this, most recently in April 2022 as 22V218000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 5 of the 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 272 complaints with NHTSA, 30 of them before this campaign was filed. 61 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V879000 (back over prevention), 23V589000 (electrical system), 22V632000 (air bags), 22V311000 (steering).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Hyundai Motor America with NHTSA on May 19, 2022 as campaign 22V354000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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