Hyundai Santa Fe. Published by Transport Canada as 2012231 on 24 July 2012. System: Airbag.
What the notice says On certain vehicles equipped with an advanced airbag system, the Passive Occupant Detection System (PODS), installed in the right front seat of the vehicle, may misclassify a small stature adult as a child and deactivate the passenger frontal airbag. When the passenger frontal airbag is deactivated, the “PASS AIR BAG …
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Hyundai SANTA FE in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Hyundai SANTA FE is named on 41 American notices, 19 British, 13 European and 11 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2012231
- Recall date
- 24 July 2012
- Make
- Hyundai
- Models
- Santa Fe
- Model years
- 2007 to 2008
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 34,016
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles equipped with an advanced airbag system, the Passive Occupant Detection System (PODS), installed in the right front seat of the vehicle, may misclassify a small stature adult as a child and deactivate the passenger frontal airbag. When the passenger frontal airbag is deactivated, the “PASS AIR BAG OFF” warning lamp will illuminate. This would cause the right front airbag to not inflate in a crash that merits airbag deployment, and may result in injury to the right front seat occupant. The condition will not affect the driver’s frontal airbag deployment. Correction: Dealers will reprogram the PODS system.
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Hyundai elsewhere in this register
Hyundai is named on 270 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2012230 · 24 July 2012 · Sonata · Airbag
- 2012418 · 11 December 2012 · Veloster · Other
- 2012419 · 11 December 2012 · Veloster · Brakes
- 2013067 · 28 February 2013 · Santa Fe Sport · Accessories
- 2013099 · 3 April 2013 · Elantra, Tucson, Accent · Electrical
- 2011350 · 26 September 2011 · Veloster · Lights And Instruments
- 2011333 · 9 September 2011 · Santa Fe, Veracruz · Airbag
- 2013279 · 12 August 2013 · Santa Fe · Powertrain
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2012230 · 24 July 2012 · Sonata · Airbag
- 2012252 · 31 July 2012 · I-Miev · Airbag
- 2012259 · 7 August 2012 · G Class · Airbag
- 2012263 · 7 August 2012 · Durango · Airbag
- 2012316 · 21 September 2012 · XC60 · Airbag
- 2012150 · 1 May 2012 · F-150 · Airbag
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Hyundai: 270 in the register, and 444 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2012.
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