Recall · 25V893000
Hyundai Motor America recalled the HYUNDAI Tucson over trailer hitches
Park outside and away from buildings until repaired. NHTSA issues this where it considers the risk immediate, and it stands until the repair is done.
51,587
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
December 19, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
TRAILER HITCHES
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Tucson vehicles equipped with an optional Mobis tow hitch wiring harness. The wiring harness may have been installed incorrectly, allowing water into the control module. Moisture accumulation may cause the trailer lighting to fail or an electrical short circuit.
- What it can cause
- Nonfunctioning trailer lights can increase the risk of a crash. A short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will remove the trailer wiring harness and install a dust cap over the wiring receptacle, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 290. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 20, 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 51,587 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% 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 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the trailer hitches 2 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V181000. 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 599 complaints with NHTSA, 421 of them before this campaign was filed. 8 of those name the trailer hitches, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2021, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V412000 (steering), 23V556000 (equipment), 23V526000 (power train), 23V038000 (structure).
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 December 19, 2025 as campaign 25V893000. 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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