Hyundai Elantra, model year 2021. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 28 April 2021. 1,464 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2021 Elantra vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat back recliners may have been improperly welded.
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.
Hyundai's own number for this recall: 204. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V302 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 21V302 cover?
- Hyundai Elantra, model year 2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2021 Elantra vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat back recliners may have been improperly welded.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An improperly welded seat back recliner could separate from the seat back frame during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and if necessary, replace the seat back frame assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 21, 2021. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-888-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 204.
- 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 204, 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: “An improperly welded seat back recliner could separate from the seat back frame during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V302 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Seats:Front Assembly:Recliner |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 April 2021 |
| Model years | 2021-2021 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI ELANTRA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An improperly welded seat back recliner could separate from the seat back frame during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and if necessary, replace the seat back frame assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 21, 2021. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-888-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 204.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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 21V302, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v302/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
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- Defect summary
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