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Between 3 September 2026, 01:16 UTC and 3 September 2026, 07:32 UTC, the text of the defect summary (what is wrong) on campaign 26V452, filed by Hyundai, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
2 words were removed and 2 were added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 3 September 2026
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Kona Electric and 2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
As we read it on 3 September 2026
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
Sealed
The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.
The wording we publish for 26V452 is one of 1,470 notices sealed on 9 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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- Seal published that day
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Cite this version
CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Hyundai rewrote the defect summary on recall 26V452, 3 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v452-summary-2026-09-03/ Sealed 9 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 7725a50686ebacd34ab5ba7a5d4d869432e0d544e89d95dd43e7fd11c9e19d7f. Seal 394a85b9fad791c52a41eb08d17f4be50e1e1d15275021f9b8313360da98e020.
If this is your car
The description of the fault was reworded. What the manufacturer has undertaken to do about it sits in the remedy on the same notice and is not affected by this edit.
A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.
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