Recall · 26V254000
Hyundai Motor America recalled 5 models over air bags
2,931
Vehicles covered
5
Models
5
Model years
April 21, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:SIDE IMPACT
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Elantra N, 2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), and Elantra vehicles. The B-pillar impact sensors may have been misassembled, which can delay air bag deployment.
- What it can cause
- Air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the impact sensor(s), as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai's customer service at 855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 299. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 22, 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 2,931 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 70% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, 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 air bags 42 times before this, most recently in January 2026 as 26V034000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 84 complaints with NHTSA, 21 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 26V400000 (electrical system), 26V316000 (forward collision avoidance), 26V047000 (electrical system), 25V549000 (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 April 21, 2026 as campaign 26V254000. 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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