Recall · 23V038000
Hyundai Motor America recalled 2 models over structure
16,104
Vehicles covered
2
Models
3
Model years
January 31, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2022 Tucson and 2022-2023 Santa Cruz vehicles. The roof moldings may detach.
- What it can cause
- A detached roof molding could become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace, or secure the roof moldings, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 30, 2023. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 241.
- 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 16,104 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the structure 2 times before this, most recently in June 2014 as 14V310000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 632 complaints with NHTSA, 136 of them before this campaign was filed. 9 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V893000 (trailer hitches), 23V181000 (trailer hitches), 22V746000 (power train), 22V197000 (engine and engine cooling).
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 January 31, 2023 as campaign 23V038000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2023-01-31.
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