Recall · 26V105000
Kia America recalled the KIA Telluride over seats
85,515
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
February 23, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2025 Telluride vehicles, equipped with power front seat(s). Due to a manufacturing error, the driver and passenger seat back frame assemblies may fail to properly restrain occupants in a crash.
- What it can cause
- A seat back frame that fails to properly restrain an occupant during a crash increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the front seat back frame assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning April 24, 2026. Owners may contact Kia Customer Service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC362. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 9, 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| KiaTelluride | 2025 | 2025 |
How this campaign compares
At 85,515 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the seats 6 times before this, most recently in January 2025 as 25V024000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 102 complaints with NHTSA, 25 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 of those name the seats, 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 2 other recalls published here: 25V745000 (tires), 25V494000 (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 Kia America, Inc. with NHTSA on February 23, 2026 as campaign 26V105000. 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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