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Hyundai Elantra, model years 2011 to 2013. Filed by Hyundai Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 1 April 2013. 186,250 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Hyundai Motor Company is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 Elantra vehicles manufactured from November 12, 2010, through March 5, 2013. A support bracket attached to the headliner may become displaced during a side curtain airbag deployment.

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.

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Hyundai's own number for this recall: 109. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V115 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 13V115 cover?
Hyundai Elantra, model years 2011-2013.
What is wrong with them?
Hyundai Motor Company is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 Elantra vehicles manufactured from November 12, 2010, through March 5, 2013. A support bracket attached to the headliner may become displaced during a side curtain airbag deployment.
What can happen if it is not put right?
If the headliner support bracket makes contact with an occupant during a crash, it may cause a laceration injury.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will apply adhesive strips to the headliner, free of charge. The safety recall began during April 2013. Owners may contact Hyundai at 1-800-633-5151. Hyundai's recall campaign number is 109.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hyundai calls this recall 109, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the headliner support bracket makes contact with an occupant during a crash, it may cause a laceration injury.”

186,250vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 1 April 2013owners told 23 April 2013today
The defect reached the regulator on 1 April 2013. Owners were written to 22 days later, on 23 April 2013. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign13V115
Filed byHyundai Motor Company
System at faultAir Bags:Side/Window
Reported to NHTSA1 April 2013
Model years2011-2013
Vehicles namedHYUNDAI ELANTRA

What the notice says today

The consequence

If the headliner support bracket makes contact with an occupant during a crash, it may cause a laceration injury.

The remedy

Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will apply adhesive strips to the headliner, free of charge. The safety recall began during April 2013. Owners may contact Hyundai at 1-800-633-5151. Hyundai's recall campaign number is 109.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 13V115, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v115/

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