Recall · 26V430000
Kia America recalled the KIA Telluride over seats
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.
462,869
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
July 2, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:POWER ADJUST
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2020-2024 Telluride vehicles. The front power seat motor may overheat due to a stuck power seat slide knob or an improper recall 24V407 repair, which can result in a fire while parked or driving.
- What it can cause
- A fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will install an electronic fuse assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 13, 2026. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC374. This recall replaces NHTSA recall number 24V407. Vehicles already repaired under the previous recall will need to have the new remedy completed. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning July 17, 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 462,869 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 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the seats 8 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V173000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,837 complaints with NHTSA, 1,749 of them before this campaign was filed. 40 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 March 2019, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V494000 (structure), 24V407000 (seats), 24V214000 (power train), 24V148000 (exterior lighting).
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 July 2, 2026 as campaign 26V430000. 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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