Recall · 26V034000
Hyundai Motor America recalled the HYUNDAI Palisade over air bags
568,576
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
January 23, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2020-2025 Palisade vehicles. The side curtain air bags for third-row occupants may deploy improperly in a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 226, "Ejection Mitigation."
- What it can cause
- Improper side curtain air bag deployment increases the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a protective film over the rear window and remove padding, as necessary free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed beginning March 13, 2026. Final remedy owner letters will be mailed in phases, beginning in June 2026 and expected to continue through December 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 292. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on January 24, 2026.
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 568,576 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 98% 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 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 41 times before this, most recently in November 2025 as 25V809000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,266 complaints with NHTSA, 1,765 of them before this campaign was filed. 115 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 August 2019, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V607000 (seat belts), 25V291000 (power train), 24V106000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V599000 (air bags).
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 23, 2026 as campaign 26V034000. 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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