Recall · 25V809000
Hyundai Motor America recalled 5 models over air bags
258
Vehicles covered
5
Models
8
Model years
November 21, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson, 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, and 2026 Genesis GV70 vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not have been installed properly, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.
- What it can cause
- Side curtain air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will reinstall the side curtain air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning December 29, 2025. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's numbers for this recall are 289 and 029G. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 22, 2025.
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 258 vehicles this is a small campaign: 57% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2025, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 40 times before this, most recently in July 2024 as 24V561000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 567 complaints with NHTSA, 115 of them before this campaign was filed. 9 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V400000 (electrical system), 26V316000 (forward collision avoidance), 26V229000 (fuel system, gasoline), 26V218000 (seat belts).
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 November 21, 2025 as campaign 25V809000. 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 2025-11-21.
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