Recall · 26V728000
Hyundai Motor America recalled 2 models over air bags
37,901
Vehicles covered
2
Models
9
Model years
November 3, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2019-2022 Veloster N, 2019-2023 Kona Electric vehicles. A software error in the air bag control unit (ACU) may improperly deactivate the air bag system and seat belt pretensioners.
- What it can cause
- Air bags and seat belt pretensioners that do not activate in a crash increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the ACU software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed January 1, 2027. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 311. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 6, 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 37,901 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% of the 19,948 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 473. It covers model years 2019 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 44 times before this, most recently in May 2026 as 26V307000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 191 complaints with NHTSA, 188 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 earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2020, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V528000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V941000 (electrical system), 22V746000 (power train), 21V127000 (electrical system).
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 November 3, 2026 as campaign 26V728000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes. Data last checked 2026-11-03.
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